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Macfuse: FUSE File System for the Mac
This one is for the real Mac geeks out there. Amit Singh, author or Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach, is widely recognized as an über Mac-geek and possibly the person outside of Apple that knows the most about Mac OS X. He is now employed by Google as their Mac Engineering Manager. As he just announced on the Official Google Mac Blog, he used part of his "20 percent time" to implement the "FUSE (File System in User Space) mechanism" for OS X (it was originally developed for Linux). He explains, "FUSE makes it possible to implement a very functional file system in a normal program rather than requiring a complex addition to the operating system." He links to the FUSE project wiki listing of applications. While this won't have an immediate impact on most of us users, it has a lot of potential. As pointed out on MacSlash this may eventually bring full read/write support for Windows NTFS formatted disks to OS X (Mac OS X can read, but not write to, NTFS disks) or even "filesystems which run over ssh and gmail."[Via the Official Google Mac Blog]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Victor Agreda, Jr. said 10:32PM on 1-11-2007
That little NTFS trick has me itching with anticipation. Applegoo indeed...
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Chris said 11:14PM on 1-11-2007
Sometimes you hear about people who are just so smart all you can do is say "wow".
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Matthew Fitzsimmons said 11:32PM on 1-11-2007
I've already started using this to access Strongspace, and will have to use it for my web servers. Interarchy is good, but this is better.
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Aaron Gyes said 1:01AM on 1-12-2007
Oh man, this is great. There are a bunch of FUSE filesystems I was using back on Linux that I havn't had replacements for here. I love this guy! His book is really cool too.
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Benedikt Terhechte said 2:18AM on 1-12-2007
I've been hoping for this for quite some time. Finally read/write ftp access in finder.
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michel said 2:25AM on 1-12-2007
to mount a filesystem by ssh, at last! like in linux.
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Martin said 6:38AM on 1-12-2007
This is really great news!
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Davie Macnife said 6:24PM on 2-09-2007
I got here trying to repair an Candy-Apple iMAC M5521 a friend gave me. I was looking for the FUSE:). I found it. It was open. I removed it with weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth. (the battery also was spent).Now i have to replace it. Hopefully maybe.
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Davie Macnife said 6:34PM on 2-09-2007
Easiest site i have signed on to. Looks very promising and i will recommend it to our Mac User's Group PMUG.
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