Comment by nimish

5 months ago

Neat! The "native" version of FUSE for windows is a "Shell Namespace Extension" and might make it a little more integrated.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/namesp...

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cbh34680  5 months ago

Thank you for the comment. The motivation for the development was the desire to easily view application logs in S3 (for free). Initially, I considered using FUSE, but I became interested after reading the following article: https://winfsp.dev/doc/Native-API-vs-FUSE/

  • nimish  5 months ago

    Awesome, very interesting! Thanks for providing that.

    WinFsp isn't "native" in the sense it's a wrapper on the Microsoft provided interface AFAICT

    Shell Namespace extensions is the pure-windows way via COM and all that junk. WinFsp is very cool though since FUSE is a much nicer API but probably less you can do to be a very explorer thing

    • cbh34680  5 months ago

      Thank you for the detailed explanation. Pure control of Explorer through COM also seems interesting. I'm still in the process of understanding WinFsp, so I can't get to that yet, but it's a challenge I want to tackle in the future.

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