Be a hero, create your own file system! Thanks to FUSE, you can in fact make this potential dream a reality! The best part is, there no kernel programming required.

A filesystem is a method for storing and organizing computer files and directories and the data they contain, making it easy to find and access them. If you are using a computer, you are most likely using more than one kind of filesystem. A filesystem can provided extended capabilities. It can be written as a wrapper over an underlying filesystem to manage its data and provide an enhanced, feature-rich filesystem (such as cvsfs-fuse, which provides a filesystem interface for CVS, or a Wayback filesystem, which provides a backup mechanism to keep old copies of data).

Before the advent of user space filesystems, filesystem development was the job of the kernel developer. Creating filesystems required knowledge of kernel programming and the kernel technologies (like vfs). And debugging required C and C++ expertise. But other developers needed to manipulate a filesystem — to add personalized features (such as adding history or forward-caching) and enhancements. Source: IBM

[tags]c++,cvs,fuse,user space filesystems,filesystem development,kernel technologies[/tags]