Important Note: this project remained at the prototype stage. Please check out the blobfuse project for a FUSE driver developed by the Azure Storage engineering team.
This is a very early prototype of a FUSE driver for Azure Blob Storage. It uses the following frameworks:
- Microsoft Azure Storage Client Library for C++: http://azure.github.io/azure-storage-cpp/
- C++ REST SDK: http://microsoft.github.io/cpprestsdk/index.html
- libfuse: http://libfuse.github.io/doxygen/index.html
The easiest way is to use the Docker image which has all the necessary pre-requisites. Just run:
docker build -t azurefuse:build .
in the build directory to create the Docker image. Then use the build_docker.sh to start the container (don't forget to check the arguments to -v to point to your local source directory). Once inside the container:
cd /azure-fuse && make
To mount the filesystem:
./mount.sh <connection_string> <mount_point>
Replace mount_point by the mount point, e.g. /azure by default, and connection_string by your full Azure Storage connection string. It should be in this format:
DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=xxxxxx;AccountKey=aaabbbcccddd