Ask HN: Why not more fuse filesystems? Please someone create a fuse filesystem that exposes k8s, AWS/GCP resources, Kafka topics, etc. For example, this illustrates what I mean: https://github.com/ozzieba/k8sfs can be nice to use regular CLI tools like find/grep/diff/jq rather than a separate workflow for each platform. Something something "everything is a file" |
The beauty of fuse lies in being able to make usable filesystems for all those niche filesystems out there. The drawback to fuse is that those niche filesystems need somebody with enough interest in them to write a fuse filesystem for those one-off niche filesystems. (A bit chicken and egg.)
I have written a couple of fuse filesystems for mounting older 8-bit computer filesystems on Linux. But they take a lot of work and a lot of time to debug. Which is probably why they aren't used a lot.