Top 15 Dokan Alternative and Similar Softwares | May 2024

When you want to create a new file system on Windows, for example to improve FAT or NTFS, you need to develop a file system driver. Developing a device driver that works in kernel mode on windows is extremely difficult.By using Dokan library, you can create your own file systems very easily without writing device driver. Dokan Library is similar to FUSE(Linux user mode file system) but works on Windows.

1. tagsistant

tagsistant Tagsistant is a semantic filesystem for Linux and BSD kernels. Its tag based method to organize files let's you quickly search and find it. It's able to reason on tags, it allows the creation of external plugins to enhance its behavior and its Free Software!......

2. TAGXFS

TAGXFS Tagxfs is a semantic file system. It extends the user space file system to a tag based hierarchy.......

3. dhtfs

dhtfs Makes the benefits of tagging available through a traditional filesystem framework like VFS.......

4. TMSU

TMSU TMSU is a tool for tagging your files. It provides a simple command-line tool for applying tags and a virtual filesystem so that you can get a tag-based view of your files from within any other program.TMSU does not alter your files in any way: they remain unchanged on disk,......

5. Multi-HDD [FUSE] filesystem

Multi-HDD [FUSE] filesystem While writing files they are written to a first HDD until the HDD has the free space (see mlimit option), then they are written ona second HDD, then to a third HDD, etc.df will show a total statistics of all filesystems like there is a big one HDD.If an overflow......

6. HFSExplorer

HFSExplorer HFSExplorer is an application that can read Mac-formatted hard disks and disk images.It can read the file systems HFS (Mac OS Standard), HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) and HFSX (Mac OS Extended with case sensitive file names).HFSExplorer allows you to browse your Mac volumes with a graphical file system browser, extract......

7. SQLIO

SQLIO SQLIO is a tool provided by Microsoft which can also be used to determine the I/O capacity of a given configuration.......

8. Dantalian

Dantalian Dantalian is a set of Python scripts to help with file organization and tagging with hard links.In technical jargon, Dantalian can be described as a multi-dimensionally hierarchical tag-based transparent lightweight file organization system.......

9. Makebootfat

Makebootfat This utility creates a bootable FAT filesystem and populates it with files and boot tools. It is mainly designed to create bootable USB and Fixed disk for the AdvanceCD project.......

10. Funter

Funter Funter is a freeware Mac utility that can show and hide hidden and system files in Mac OS X Finder.It is light and simple to use application. Funter is helpful when you need to discover your files deep, to be sure all stuff you see.Funter can be launched at system......

11. Microsoft ScanDisk

Microsoft ScanDisk ScanDisk is a utility in MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows systems which checks and repairs file systems and bad clusters on the hard drive. It was introduced in MS-DOS version 6.2. Previous versions of MS-DOS supplied only the simpler, purely text-based program chkdsk . In Windows 95 onwards, SCANDISK......

12. Mtools

Mtools Mtools is a collection of utilities to access MS-DOS disks from GNU and Unix without mounting them. It supports Win'95 style long file names, OS/2 Xdf disks and 2m disks (store up to 1992k on a high density 3 1/2 disk). Mtools can now handle the long filenames of Windows......

13. Quobyte

Quobyte Quobyte is a complete software storage solution for reliable and scalable storage infrastructures. It turns commodity hardware into a data center file system that enables warehouse-scale storage infrastructures without compromising operations. Focused on delivering high-performance for all workloads, Quobyte is production-ready and very user-friendly with built-in management tools that enable......

14. IOzone

IOzone IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations.Iozone is useful for performing a broad filesystem analysis of a vendor’s computer platform. The benchmark tests file I/O performance for the following operations:Read, write, re-read, re-write, read backwards, read strided, fread, fwrite, random read,......

15. BeeGFS

BeeGFS Why use BeeGFS?BeeGFS transparently spreads user data across multiple servers. By increasing the number of servers and disks in the system, you can simply scale performance and capacity of the file system to the level that you need, seamlessly from small clusters up to enterprise-class systems with thousands of nodes.How......