# Virtual file-system

**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/virtual-file-system/5920
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [October 20, 2015, 4:28am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/virtual-file-system/5920 "2015-10-20T04:28:23Z")
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### Author: ![burkemw3](https://forum.syncthing.net/user_avatar/forum.syncthing.net/burkemw3/32/1849_2.png) [@burkemw3](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/burkemw3)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/virtual-file-system/5920/3 "2015-10-20T22:43:43Z")

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I have been working on a related idea. [Syncthing-fuse](https://github.com/burkemw3/syncthing-fuse) allows a node to view all files, but only stores a fixed amount of data locally.

In my mind, disk space is cheap, so finding one or more nodes that can hold the full index shouldn’t be a big deal. I wanted a client that could access all those files, but not necessarily store the data for all of them. So, I’m building the client! If you’re interested in helping, let me know!

[Selective download and placeholder files](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/selective-download-and-placeholder-files/1779) discusses similar concepts quite extensively and includes [my introduction of syncthing-fuse](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/selective-download-and-placeholder-files/1779/72).

Syncthing-fuse will only support OSX and Linux. There has been some talk about Android supporting a similar feature in [syncthing #193 Selective Sync](https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/193) and [syncthing-android #81 Selective download](https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/81).

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