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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Davie Macnife

Easiest site i have signed on to. Looks very promising and i will recommend it to our Mac User's Group PMUG.

February 09 2007 at 6:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Davie Macnife

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.

February 09 2007 at 6:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Martin

This is really great news!

January 12 2007 at 6:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Michel

to mount a filesystem by ssh, at last! like in linux.

January 12 2007 at 2:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Benedikt Terhechte

I've been hoping for this for quite some time. Finally read/write ftp access in finder.

January 12 2007 at 2:16 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Aaron

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.

January 12 2007 at 12:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matthew Fitzsimmons

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.

January 11 2007 at 11:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris

Sometimes you hear about people who are just so smart all you can do is say "wow".

January 11 2007 at 11:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

superpixel

That little NTFS trick has me itching with anticipation. Applegoo indeed...

January 11 2007 at 10:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply