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Comment by cbh34680

10 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/

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nimish  10 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  10 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.