In case anyone is wondering: if you want to use sshfs network drives as demoed on their Github page, WinFsp is not enough, you need to also install SSHFS-Win:<p><a href="https://github.com/billziss-gh/sshfs-win/releases/tag/v3.5.20357" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/billziss-gh/sshfs-win/releases/tag/v3.5.2...</a>
Used this extensively when I was working on BitFort (abandoned project). It's really solid. If you're open source you can use the whole thing no problem. If you're closed source, a commercial license costs around $5k.
It's interesting to note that WSL uses 9p to mount the filesystem on Windows. Had MSFT taken a more FOSS-friendly approach, we could've had a burgeoning FUSE ecosystem built around 9p.
Could one easily distribute software that bundles this and have it installed by novice end users? What kind of permission granting seances would they have to go through, if any?
APFS (Apple Filesystem) on MacOS has some kind of file provider API too. Here's one app that uses it:<p><a href="https://www.expandrive.com/strongsync/" rel="nofollow">https://www.expandrive.com/strongsync/</a>
> <i>It outperforms NTFS in most scenarios (an unfair comparison as NTFS is a disk file system and WinFsp is tested with an in-memory file system)</i><p>Oh good grief! Let me guess, they first benchmarked it against a ram disk, but the resulting graphs didn't look so impressive so they scrapped that and decided to benchmark it against a <i>disk</i>, which they admit was unfair, just to get the impressive looking graphics.