From 7f27dfa6b9cb782820c8de2acc522cd40a2dc9d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathaniel Beaver Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 15:28:00 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Talk about FUSE. --- README.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 94973b1..dbd4a3d 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -729,6 +729,14 @@ Realistically, though, `defragmentation isn't that important for NTFS`_, either. .. _do not require defragmentation: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/filesystems.html#FRAGMENTATION .. _defragmentation isn't that important for NTFS: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/01/25/disk-defragmentation-background-and-engineering-the-windows-7-improvements.aspx +Finally, Linux permits unprivileged users to run their own filesystems via FUSE. +This has many practical benefits, +such as accessing cloud storage as if it were an ordinary directory. + +There is a project to bring FUSE to Windows, +but it is no longer maintained +and its various forks are not as mature as the Linux implementation. + ------------------ UTF-16, not UTF-8. ------------------