The FSQA regression test suite, more commonly known as xfstests, comprises over 1,500 tests that exercise (torture) both the user- and kernel-space parts of many different file systems.

As the package's name subtly implies, it was originally developed to test the XFS file system. Today, xfstests is the primary test suite for all major file systems supported by the kernel Linux including XFS, ext4, and Btrfs, but also virtual and network file systems such as NFS, 9P, and the overlay file system.

The packaged check script is not in PATH but can be invoked with the included xfstests-check helper.

Gocryptfs is an encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go. It features a file-based encryption that is implemented as a mountable FUSE filesystem.

Gocryptfs was inspired by EncFS and strives to fix its security issues while providing good performance. Gocryptfs is as fast as EncFS in the default mode and significantly faster than paranoia mode in EncFS, which provides a security level comparable to Gocryptfs.

On CPUs without AES-NI, gocryptfs uses OpenSSL through a thin wrapper called stupidgcm. This provides a 4x speedup compared to Go's builtin AES-GCM implementation.

dbxfs allows you to mount your Dropbox folder as if it were a local file system using FUSE.

GlusterFS is a distributed scalable network file system suitable for data-intensive tasks such as cloud storage and media streaming. It allows rapid provisioning of additional storage based on your storage consumption needs. It incorporates automatic failover as a primary feature. All of this is accomplished without a centralized metadata server.

An overlay FUSE file system that introduces non-determinism into file system metadata. For example, it can randomize the order in which directory entries are read. This is useful for detecting non-determinism in the build process.

This package provides the user space component of CacheFiles, a caching back end that uses a directory on a locally mounted file system (such as ext4) as a cache to speed up (by reducing) access to a slower file system and make it appear more reliable.

The cached file system is often a network file system such as NFS or CIFS, but can also be a local file system like ISO 9660 on a slow optical drive.

CacheFiles itself is part of the kernel but relies on this user space cachefilesd daemon to perform maintenance tasks like culling and reaping stale nodes. Only one such daemon can be running at a time, and communicates with the kernel through the /dev/cachefiles character device.

This version modifies David Howells original cachefilesd---which appears unmaintained---to use the inotify API instead of the deprecated dnotify to monitor file changes.

BEES is a block-oriented, user-space deduplication agent designed for large btrfs file systems. It combines off-line data deduplication with incremental scanning to minimize the time your data spend on disk between being written and being deduplicated.

This package provides statically-linked jfs_fsck command taken from the jfsutils package. It is meant to be used in initrds.

TMSU is a tool for tagging your files. It provides a simple command-line utility for applying tags and a virtual file system to give you a tag-based view of your files from any other program. TMSU does not alter your files in any way: they remain unchanged on disk, or on the network, wherever your put them. TMSU maintains its own database and you simply gain an additional view, which you can mount where you like, based upon the tags you set up.

This package provides the bcachefs command-line tool with many subcommands for creating, checking, and otherwise managing bcachefs file systems. Traditional aliases like mkfs.bcachefs are also included.

Bcachefs is a CoW file system supporting native encryption, compression, snapshots, and (meta)data checksums. It can use multiple block devices for replication and/or performance, similar to RAID.

In addition, bcachefs provides all the functionality of bcache, a block-layer caching system, and lets you assign different roles to each device based on its performance and other characteristics.

fscryptctl is a low-level tool written in C that handles raw keys and manages policies for Linux filesystem encryption, specifically the fscrypt kernel interface which is supported by the ext4, f2fs, UBIFS, and CephFS filesystems.

GPhotoFS is a FUSE file system module to mount your camera as a file system on Linux. This allow using your camera with any tool able to read from a mounted file system.

RewriteFS is a FUSE to change the name of accessed files on the fly based on any number of regular expressions. It's like the rewrite action of many Web servers, but for your file system. For example, it can help keep your home directory tidy by transparently rewriting the location of configuration files of software that doesn't follow the XDG directory specification from ~/.name to ~/.config/name.

The JFSutils are a collection of utilities for managing the JFS, a 64-bit journaling file system created by IBM and later ported to the kernel Linux. The following commands are available:

1. fsck.jfs: check and repair a JFS file system or replay its transaction log.

2. logdump: dump the JFS journal log.

3. logredo: replay the JFS journal log.

4. mkfs.jfs: create a new JFS file system.

5. xchklog: save a JFS fsck log to a file.

6. xchkdmp: dump the contents of such a log file.

7. xpeek: a JFS file system editor with a shell-like interface.

Squashfuse lets you mount SquashFS archives in user-space. It supports almost all features of the SquashFS format, yet is still fast and memory-efficient.

This package provides an implementation of overlay+shiftfs in FUSE for rootless containers.

These are command-line user space tools for the exFAT file systems. Included are mkfs.exfat to create (format) new exFAT file systems, and fsck.exfat to check their consistency and repair them.

The JFSutils are a collection of utilities for managing the JFS, a 64-bit journaling file system created by IBM and later ported to the kernel Linux. The following commands are available:

1. fsck.jfs: check and repair a JFS file system or replay its transaction log.

2. logdump: dump the JFS journal log.

3. logredo: replay the JFS journal log.

4. mkfs.jfs: create a new JFS file system.

5. xchklog: save a JFS fsck log to a file.

6. xchkdmp: dump the contents of such a log file.

7. xpeek: a JFS file system editor with a shell-like interface.

This package provides Snapper, a tool that helps with managing snapshots of Btrfs subvolumes and thin-provisioned LVM volumes. It can create and compare snapshots, revert differences between them, and supports automatic snapshots timelines.

OpenZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris and is now maintained by the OpenZFS community.

This package provides several command-line tools to transform a supported file system, such as XFS, into one of a different supported type, such as ext4. All existing file contents, names, and directories are preserved.

The conversion happens in place, without the need to create a complete copy of the original data. This lets you transform almost full file systems on systems where adding (sufficient) additional storage space is not an option.

Do not use this package when you could simply create an empty file system from scratch and restore from a back-up. Transformation is limited, slow, and significantly increases the risk of irreversible data loss!

NILFS is a log-structured file system supporting versioning of the entire file system and continuous snapshotting, which allows users to even restore files mistakenly overwritten or destroyed just a few seconds ago.

Squashfuse lets you mount SquashFS archives in user-space. It supports almost all features of the SquashFS format, yet is still fast and memory-efficient.

Watcher may be used as a library or a program that can be used to efficiently watch a file system for changes. This package provides the following components:

include/wtr/watcher.hpp

C++ header library

watcher-c

C shared and static library

wtr.watcher

Command-line interface (CLI)

tw

Minimal, more human-readable CLI variant