dokany

# Dokany

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## What is Dokan

When you want to create a new file system on Windows, other than FAT or NTFS,
you need to develop a file system driver. Developing a device driver that works
in kernel mode on windows is extremely technical. By using Dokan, you can create
your own file systems very easily without writing device drivers. Dokan is
similar to FUSE (Linux file system in user space) but works on Windows. Moreover,
dokany includes a [FUSE wrapper](https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/wiki/FUSE)
that helps you to port your FUSE filesystems without changes.

## What is Dokany

*Dokany is a fork of Dokan 0.6.0 with bug fixes, clean change history and
updated to build with latest tools.*

Because the original Dokan Legacy (< 0.6.0) project is no longer maintained.

Since version 0.8.0, dokany broke compatibility with the dokan API. See
[Choose a version](https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/wiki/Installation#choose-a-version)
for more information.

The API has then again changed over time in [1.1.0](https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/wiki/Update-Dokan-1.0.0-application-to-Dokany-1.1.0) and [2.0.0](https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/wiki/Update-Dokan-1.1.0-application-to-Dokany-2.0.0).

## Benchmark v1.5.1.1000 vs v2.0.3.1000

A benchmark that is testing multiple scenarios repeaditly and sequentially was run 5 times against the `memfs` sample of v1.5.1.1000 and v2.0.3.1000 in an idle environment to precise results.
The detail results can be seen in this spreadsheet [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zdJ6fm