# hanwen/go-fuse

FUSE bindings for Go

Repository: https://github.com/hanwen/go-fuse
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/go-fuse
Language: Go
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: fuse-libraries, filesystem, fuse, libfuse
Last push: 2026-08-03T08:08:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5728, "days_push": 30, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2360, forks 428 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:40.851697+00:00)

## What it is
Go-FUSE provides native Go bindings for the FUSE kernel module, letting developers implement userspace filesystems in Go. It offers both node-based and path-based APIs with protocol support up to FUSE 7.12.28 and performance competitive with libfuse.

## Use cases
- implement a custom filesystem in Go
- mount a zip or tar archive as a read-only filesystem
- expose a remote or virtual data store as a local mount point
- serve a filesystem to VMs via virtiofs
- create a loopback-style filesystem with custom behavior

## When to choose
- you need to build a userspace filesystem in Go
- you want up-to-date FUSE protocol support including passthrough, STATX, and IOCTL
- you need cross-platform FUSE support on Linux, macOS, or FreeBSD

## When to avoid
- you are writing filesystems in C and prefer libfuse directly
- you need a filesystem on Windows without a FUSE compatibility layer
- you only need to read archives rather than implement a filesystem

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: file-system
- domain: developer-tools, operating-systems
- platform: bsd, go
- tags: fuse, filesystem-bindings, kernel, virtiofs, zipfs, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- hanwen/go-fuse (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:40.851697+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:36:08.579739+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hanwen/go-fuse (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:40.851697+00:00, sha 50af7cc03ae0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.