New Version of MacFUSE
Version 1.5 of MacFUSE is out. The CHANGELOG has details of what’s new.
View ArticleNew Install/Update Capabilities in MacFUSE
MacFUSE has a new install/update mechanism that greatly simplifies and improves things both for end users and developers who use MacFUSE in their software. The relevant wiki page has all the details....
View ArticleGrabFS Source Code
Earlier this year, I released GrabFS, a MacFUSE file system that shows “live” screenshots of Mac OS X applications. If you wish to understand how GrabFS works, you can now browse its source. Enjoy.
View ArticleMacFUSE Talk at Google
Next Monday (December 8, 2008), there will be an open-to-all talk on MacFUSE at Google’s Mountain View headquarters. Here is a more detailed announcement.
View ArticleMacFUSE 2.0 is Here!
It was a little over two years ago that I gave serious thought to making user-space file systems a reality on Mac OS X. The result of that work, MacFUSE, was introduced at the Macworld conference in...
View ArticleVeryBigFS: All You Can Read
VeryBigFS is a trivial MacFUSE file system—about 60 lines of C code—that creates a huge volume with a huge file in it. “Huge” would be 512TB in this case. This is useful if you want to see how a...
View ArticleA Note on Automounting MacFUSE File Systems
Mac OS X, like many other Unix-like operating systems, includes the “autofs” file system layer that make automatic on-demand mounting of remote resources possible. See the man page for automount(8) for...
View ArticleMore User-Space File System Goodies
There has been much buzz about new features and functionality in MacFUSE 2.0. Besides the MacFUSE 2.0 release, there are still more new and interesting things to be discussed in the realm of user-space...
View ArticleExtended Notes on AncientFS
Here are some extended notes on understanding, compiling, and using AncientFS, the file system I talked about in the previous blog post.
View ArticleWhy MacFUSE Installation Recommends a Reboot
I often hear users—and even developers, for that matter—grumbling about the fact that they are "required" to reboot their systems after installing or upgrading MacFUSE. I’ve even heard explanations...
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