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Re:Dokan – User Mode File Systems on Windows by supermatt on Monday April 04, 2016 @07:35AM (#11421014)
Because you don't like the name Dokan? Not really picking up anything else from the title...
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Re:Dokan – User Mode File Systems on Windows by amelius on Monday April 04, 2016 @07:47AM (#11421087)
No, because Linux had libfuse ages ago.
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Re:Dokan – User Mode File Systems on Windows by geofft on Monday April 04, 2016 @10:10AM (#11421948)
Windows had user-level filesystem implementations years before Linux had FUSE:

https://github.com/openafs/openafs/blob/7f4414ae3983fe7260de...

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Re:Dokan – User Mode File Systems on Windows by naasking on Monday April 04, 2016 @09:21AM (#11421635)
And microkernels had user-level file systems since the 1980s. By your logic, you must have been using those for quite some time.
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Re:Dokan – User Mode File Systems on Windows by didulive on Monday April 04, 2016 @07:58AM (#11421150)
libfuse: 2001 Dokan: 2007

We are in 2016...do you still still try to understand which came first, the chicken or the egg?

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Re:Dokan – User Mode File Systems on Windows by dsp1234 on Monday April 04, 2016 @12:56PM (#11423405)
Windows has other user space file systems, and has for a long time. OpenAFS goes all the way back to 2000, and had a windows 95 client even[0].

Comparing libfuse to Dokan is like comparing fat16 to HAMMER. It's recent, but not the first by any stretch

https://github.com/openafs/openafs/tree/ba3d4666cbd19b56bcec...

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Re:Dokan – User Mode File Systems on Windows by icebraining on Monday April 04, 2016 @08:52AM (#11421456)
I think the point is that Linux gets that stuff first, since it's a more open system which makes it easier to hack stuff into.
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