earthstar-fuse

A proof-of-concept implementation of FUSE on top of Earthstar.

This means that you can take a database that backs an Earthstar workspace and interact with it as if it were just a whole bunch of files in folders.

Caveats

0. This is pre-alpha quality software.
1. This has only been tested on 1 machine for about 10 minutes.
2. A couple times when developing it, it locked up my mac and I had to reboot.
3. Performance is quite bad.
4. It might corrupt your data, please back it up first.

Only tested on a Macbook Pro running Catalina. Might work on Linux, almost definitely doesn't work on Windows.

Roadmap

• Viewing documents as files
• Writing documents
• Tests
• Performance

Quickstart

In the below steps, /path/to/mnt/ is the full path to a directory of your choice. This directory should exist and also be empty.

1. Clone the repo
2. npm install
3. npm src/index.js /path/to/mnt/ my.sqlite author-keypair.json
4. In a new window, do ls /path/to/mnt/

If you get a mysterious error, file an issue and/or check out these troubleshooting steps to enable FUSE.