Documentation

Overview

The MaidSafe-Drive library presents a user-mode interface to the kernel-mode modules Eldos' Callback File System, Fuse and OSXFuse available for Windows, Linux and Mac platforms respectively. In each case a virtual drive can be mounted and presented as a native drive on the system. Filesystem operations performed on the drive are filtered to relevant callback functions the user-mode code has registered to handle. Directories/files are encrypted using the facilities present in Encrypt, while they are stored/retrieved directly to/form the network via Network-Filesystem, Routing and RUDP. The space available/used on the drive is derived from the values a client reports it's Vault's to have offered to/used on the network.

Details

The MaidSafe-Drive API includes the following files:

• drive_api.h defines the base class with shared interface to the platform specific derived classes defined in the header files outlined below.
• win_drive.h includes user-mode code specific to Windows and Callback File System.
• unix_drive.h includes user-mode code specific to Linux and Fuse.
• config.h provides convenient typdef's and constants.

Further details describing the class interfaces, etc., can be found within the files and also in the supporting material available to the library.