{"id":296,"date":"2006-07-19T23:06:51","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T06:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=296"},"modified":"2011-02-17T22:41:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T06:41:34","slug":"new-filesystem-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/new-filesystem-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"New Filesystem Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really like FUSE<\/a>, the filesystem in userspace that facilitated the creation of gcfuse<\/a>. I think the killer app for FUSE is sshfs<\/a>. It’s a minor miracle that if you have an SSH server running on a machine you can use sshfs to mount a filesystem from another machine. Authentication, encryption, all taken care of. None of that NFS or Samba configuration hassle.<\/p>\n

I started wondering what else I might be able to use FUSE for. There is the small issue of Sega Dreamcast disc images. These games contain a lot of multimedia encoded with Sofdec’s<\/a> middleware tools. For the most part, these discs use an ISO-9660-like filesystem that’s just a little different and doesn’t operate with Linux’s ISO-9660 module. Perhaps a FUSE\/ISO-9660 module that can also handle the modified Dreamcast variant? Actually, I see that the big FUSE app directory<\/a> lists an app appropriately named fuseiso which can load an ISO-9660 filesystem. It might be worth a look.<\/p>\n

Thinking bigger, what about a FUSE module that mounts a DVD and presents it in some interesting manner? For starters, it will transparently decrypt the data. Then, present the contents of the DVD as a series of chapters or tracks or menu options. Since a DVD is not necessarily a strict hierarchy, perhaps organize the different viewing options in different directories. Or a \/proc-like special filesystem that allows tinkering with the audio and subtitle options. It’s late and I’m just tossing out ideas here. Feel free to jump in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What else can this thing do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,221],"tags":[69,114,81],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outlandish-brainstorms","category-sega-dreamcast","tag-dreamcast","tag-filesystem","tag-fuse"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t