From de54fd4c6415de64615c9c25a286942b21f131ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Craig-Wood Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 12:13:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mount: add docs for windows install --- cmd/mountlib/mount.go | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/cmd/mountlib/mount.go b/cmd/mountlib/mount.go index 00cda3acf..c0964ab4c 100644 --- a/cmd/mountlib/mount.go +++ b/cmd/mountlib/mount.go @@ -71,6 +71,19 @@ When that happens, it is the user's responsibility to stop the mount manually wi # OS X umount /path/to/local/mount +### Installing on Windows ### + +To run rclone ` + commandName + ` on Windows, you will need to +download and install [WinFsp](http://www.secfs.net/winfsp/). + +WinFsp is an [open source](https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp) +Windows File System Proxy which makes it easy to write user space file +systems for Windows. It provides a FUSE emulation layer which rclone +uses combination with +[cgofuse](https://github.com/billziss-gh/cgofuse). Both of these +packages are by Bill Zissimopoulos who was very helpful during the +implementation of rclone ` + commandName + ` for Windows. + ### Limitations ### This can only write files seqentially, it can only seek when reading.