使用Python在Windows中编写虚拟文件系统的最简单方法

Question

I want to program a virtual file system in Windows with Python.

That is, a program in Python whose interface is actually an "explorer windows". You can create & manipulate file-like objects but instead of being created in the hard disk as regular files they are managed by my program and, say, stored remotely, or encrypted or compressed or versioned, or whatever I can do with Python.

What is the easiest way to do that?

Answer 1

虽然可能尚未成熟（不幸的是我没有第一手经验），但pywinfuse看起来与你正在寻找的完全一样。

Answer 2

Have a look at Dokan a User mode filesystem for Windows. There are Ruby, .NET (and Java by 3rd party) bindings available, and I don't think it'll be difficult to write python bindings either.

Answer 3

Does it need to be Windows-native? There is at least one protocol which can be both browsed by Windows Explorer, and served by free Python libraries: FTP. Stick your program behind pyftpdlib and you're done.

Answer 4

You might be interested in PyFilesystem ;

A filesystem abstraction layer for Python

PyFilesystem is an abstraction layer for filesystems. In the same way that Python's file-like objects provide a common way of accessing files, PyFilesystem provides a common way of accessing entire filesystems. You can write platform-independent code to work with local files, that also works with any of the supported filesystems (zip, ftp, S3 etc.).

What the description on the homepage does not advertise is that you can then expose this abstraction again as a filesystem, among others SFTP, FTP (though currently disfunct , probably fixable ) and dokan ( dito ) as well as fuse .

Answer 5

If you are trying to write a virtual file system (I may misunderstand you) - I would look at a container file format. VHD is well documented along with HDI and (embedded) OSQ. There are basically two things you need to do. One is you need to decide on a file/container format. After that it is as simple as writing the API to manipulate that container. If you would like it to be manipulated over the internet, pick a transport protocol then just write a service (would would emulate a file system driver) that listens on a certain port and manipulates this container using your API