Use of Linux FUSE on Android

[flongo82]

In order to implement drivers on Android we would need to have Linux FUSE or some similar mechanisms available.

[gmerlino]

FUSE on Android is out of question, unless we take into consideration rooted devices, unfortunately, at least with current version of Android, where FUSE is used internally but not exposed to the developer.

In any case FUSE is not strictly needed on Android anyway, for our use case, as any software would be split in an (optional) APK and a Node.js module, to be deployed via some Termux APIs (intents).

Thus, Node.js logic would be the proxy for I/O as seen by the Cloud (and any APK as well).

As such, we just need to work at this level of abstraction and simply override built-in or module-provided functions (in particular "fs" ones) with behaviour of our choice, in order to emulate filesystem modifications and custom operations.

This is quite doable in Node.js, as exemplified here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17074200/node-js-override-standard-module