# rust-vfs
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A virtual filesystem for Rust
The virtual file system abstraction generalizes over file systems and allows using
different filesystem implementations (e.g. an in memory implementation for unit tests)
This crate currently has the following implementations:
* **PhysicalFS** - the actual filesystem of the underlying OS
* **MemoryFS** - an ephemeral in-memory file system, intended mainly for unit tests
* **AltrootFS** - a file system with its root in a particular directory of another filesystem
* **OverlayFS** - an overlay file system combining two filesystems, an upper layer with read/write access and a lower layer with only read access
* **EmbeddedFS** - a read-only file system embedded in the executable, requires `embedded-fs` feature
The minimum supported Rust version is 1.40.0.
Comments and pull-requests welcome!
## Changelog
### 0.6.2 (2022-03-07)
* Activate `embedded-fs` feature when building on docs.rs to ensure that it actually shows up there
([#28](https://github.com/manuel-woelker/rust-vfs/issues/28) - thanks [@Absolucy](https://github.com/Absolucy))
### 0.6.1 (2022-03-06)
* Added `VfsPath::root()` method to access the root path of a virtual filesystem
(closes [#26](https://github.com/manuel-woelker/rust-vfs/issues/26))
* Added doctests to `VfsPath` docs to provide usage examples
### 0.6.0 (2022-03-02)
* Fixed path inconsistency issues in `EmbeddedFS` (closes [#24](https://github.com/manuel-woelker/rust-vfs/issues/24))
* Added the test macro `test_vfs_readonly!` which allows verifying read-only filesystem implementations
* Removed dependency on `thiserror` crate to improve compile times
(closes [#25](https://github.com/manuel-woelker/rust-vfs/issues/25))
### 0.5.2 (2022-02-07)
* Removed potential panic in `OverlayFS` (closes [#23](https://github.com/manuel-woelker/rust-vfs/issues/23))
* `VfsPath::join()` now takes AsRef<str> instead of &str to improve ergonomics with crates like camino
### 0.5.1 (2021-02-13)
* Exported `test_vfs` macro via the feature flag `export-test-macros` to allow downstream implementations to verify
expected behaviour
* The MSRV is now 1.40 due to requirements in upstream crates
* The embedded implementation was broken by the 0.5.0 API changes, and is now fixed
### 0.5.0 (2021-02-13)
* Added `EmbeddedFS` for using filesystems embeded in the binary using
[rust-embed](https://github.com/pyros2097/rust-embed)
(PR [#12](https://github.com/manuel-woelker/rust-vfs/issues/12) - thanks [@ahouts](https://github.com/ahouts))
* Changed `VfsPath::exists()` to return `VfsResult<bool>` instead of plain `bool` (closes [#17](https://github.com/manuel-woelker/rust-vfs/issues/17))
### 0.4.0 (2020-08-13)
* Added `OverlayFS` union filesystem
* Added `VfsPath::read_to_string()` convenience method
* Added `VfsPath::walk_dir()` method for recursive directory traversal
* Added `VfsPath::{copy,move}_{file,dir}()` methods (closes [#9](https://github.com/manuel-woelker/rust-vfs/issues/9))
* License is now Apache 2.0
* Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is 1.32.0
### 0.3.0 (2020-08-04)
* Refactored to use a trait based design, simplifying usage and testing
### 0.2.1 (2020-02-06)
* Added `AltrootFS` (thanks [@icefoxen](https://github.com/icefoxen))
### 0.1.0 (2016-05-14)
* Initial release
## Roadmap
* Support for read-only filesystems
* Support for re-mounting filesystems
* Support for virtual filesystem access inside archives (e.g. zip)