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A FUSE filesystem for GridFS written in Python

gridfsfusepy

A FUSE filesystem for GridFS written in Python using the excellent fusepy bindings.

About

gridfsfusepy was written by Stuart Carnie.

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Features

• Read/only, though read/write is planned next
• Folder support
  • gridfsfusepy will parse out the filename property, to create a directory structure by splitting forward slashes (/) into subdirectories

Dependencies

The following components must be installed prior to using gridfsfusepy

• FUSE for OSX or FUSE for Linux
• fusepy Python bindings for fuse

Usage

python gridfsfusepy.py mongo_db_name collection_name mount_point

Where:

• mongo_db_name is MongoDB database name
• collection_name is name of GridGS collection name, e.g. fs
• mount_point is name of folder to mount GridFS filesystem

Compatibility

OS X

gridfsfusepy and fusepy has been tested with FUSE for OSX on Mountain Lion 10.8.

Linux

gridfsfusepy has been tested with the following Linux distros:

• Ubuntu 12.04

Changelog

0.02.0:

• Rename files and directories

0.01.0: Initial release

• Read-only support
• Automatic Folder hierarchy, delimiting filename by /