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Rust crates · category · data Oct 24, 2026
Filesystem crates by real downloads
crates.io describes this category as: “Crates for dealing with files and filesystems.” Below are the 17 crates in it among the 1000 most-downloaded crates, ranked by real downloads (quiet-day baseline) instead of raw count.
Short answerBy steady daily use, rustix leads Filesystem with 3,390,892 real downloads a day (widely used and steady). 7 of the 17 have 1,000+ dependents; 3 have shipped nothing in 2+ years. Release spikes barely matter here: the median crate got 1.7% of its downloads within 2 days of a release.
17 crates
| Compare | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rustixWidely used | 3,390,892 | 1,684 | 38d | +1% | 1.3B | |
| walkdirWidely used | 1,935,670 | 7,101 | 2.6y | +1% | 711M | |
| globWidely used | 1,726,589 | 4,101 | 3mo | -6% | 679M | |
| dunceEstablished | 1,298,706 | 766 | 2.2y | +1% | 364M | |
| zipWidely used | 977,272 | 4,151 | 7d | +6% | 314M | |
| caminoWidely used | 872,911 | 1,078 | 39d | -7% | 300M | |
| whichWidely used | 817,673 | 2,276 | 59d | -1% | 455M | |
| inotifyEstablished | 536,854 | 117 | 2mo | +2% | 188M | |
| notifyWidely used | 515,449 | 3,197 | 7d | +7% | 179M | |
| inotify-sysPulled in | 496,815 | 2 | 4mo | +4% | 174M | |
| fs-errEstablished | 422,324 | 474 | 20d | -8% | 150M | |
| notify-typesPulled in | 404,449 | 8 | 9mo | +20% | 87.3M | |
| relative-pathEstablished | 342,966 | 140 | 3d | -12% | 122M | |
| bytesizeEstablished | 267,970 | 503 | 3mo | -5% | 115M | |
| procfsEstablished | 216,195 | 252 | 14mo | +6% | 89.1M | |
| globwalkEstablished | 177,688 | 127 | 2.8y | -9% | 91M | |
| remove_dir_allPulled in | 122,193 | 84 | 23mo | -9% | 134M |
Click a column to sort; press + to add a crate to a comparison. Real / day = median downloads on days with no release that day or the day before. Each crate's page shows its verdict and the 4 rules behind it. Why this method · this category on crates.io
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