Open Source Python File Systems

WikipediaFS: View and edit Wikipedia articles as if they were real files.

File Sift groups files and directories to fit within a specified size threshold. This is useful when backing up to media of fixed size (ie cd-r media), and helps maximize the use of space on that media. Provides both graphical and command line interfac

Rugg is a hard drive and filesystem harness tool that allows you to test and benchmark drives and filesystems, by writing simple to complex scenarios that can mimic the behaviour of real-world applications.

compactpath is a python package to handle compacting of filepaths. compacting of filepaths may be useful in gui programming where filepaths of arbitrary lenght have to be displayed in widgets with limited visual space.

FSFS is a secure distributed file system in user space built over FUSE and OpenSSL. It stores AND transfers data between clients and server in secure form, leaving most of the cryptography to the clients, thus relieving the server of the additional work.

File and Database Generator for windows and linux

File system reliability benchmark is a set of Python scripts for benchmarking file system behaviour in case of system crashes, power outages, etc.

Linux filesystem for Samsung X100, X600, E100, E700 and E800 mobile phones.

Frees is a GUI tool for Linux that shows the space usage on all mounted drives.

OS Farm is a service for generating and storing Xen VM images and Virtual Appliances. A live demo can be found at http://cern.ch/osfarm

PanDAV is a project comprising of a WebDAV server library (in Python) and a simple WebDAV file server, written to be extremely easy to use and extend.

PyGFS is a reliable and secure distributed file system that runs completely in userspace. It supports x509 certificate authentication, authorization and encryption mechanisms to provide secure access over insecure networks.

PySamba is a full wrapper based in the work of Tim Potter. PySamba is built as a Python C extension and a Python module that hides the complexity of the lower layer (smb). At now, PySamba provides a fully functional samba wrapper

Smart Copy is a single-file Python app for batch execution (Ant-like) of commands. For example, SC can dump a SQL database, zip it and a source dir, and then send everything to an FTP site. Batch files are XML-based. See More >> Wiki for full details.

Network Manager Based On Python Programming, Designed For Terminal Only.

Highly customizable directory listing.

Exposes Windows WNetAddConnection2, WNetUseConnection and WNetCancelConnection as a python class. Helpful for mounting and dismounting WebDAV drives programmatically.

XtreemOS project aims at building a Linux-based operating system to support virtual organizations for next generation Grids.

gnetmount is a GUI program (gtk) for mounting network file systems and, optionally, any other type of file system listed in fstab. It allows non-root users to easily mount or umount file systems, such as smbfs or cifs, that require authentication.

pyDirStat is a small tool to view statistical information about a directory. It will generate a view of all files contained in a directory (and subdirectories) with rectangles. Each rectangle area is proportional to file size. It's a perfect tool to qu

readsmb is an open source extentsion module for Python. It's writen by C and published under the GPLv2. Using readsmb, you can browse or read contents on a SAMBA/CIFS server.

SchizoCopy is a software application for Microsoft Windows that is designed to be used to move or copy computer files. As an alternative to the Default Windows OS copy operations, it is designed to be faster and have more functionality than the native tool. SchizoCopy offers many unique offers besides providing fastest copying speed. It has an unique option for "Backup support" in case of unexpected shutdown or System exit you can always resume your ongoing Copy/Move operations.