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Written by Neonkoala
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Tuesday, 16 January 2007 |
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Today a new application was released which could mean an end to the spat between Windows and OS X refusing to share – MacFUSE. The idea behind it is to create a filesystem present in the OS X userspace which allows both Windows and OS X to write to it and treat the files well. It should please many people that hated having to resort to a FAT32 "swap" partition on both Macs and Hacks.
"MacFUSE implements a mechanism that makes it possible to implement a fully functional file system in a user-space program on Mac OS X (10.4 and above). It aims to be API-compliant with the FUSE (Filesystem in USErspace) mechanism that originated on Linux. Therefore, many existing FUSE file systems become readily usable on Mac OS X. The core of MacFUSE is in a dynamically loadable kernel extension.
How FUSE-compliant is MacFUSE? Well, enough so that many popular FUSE file systems can be easily compiled and work on Mac OS X–often out of the box. Examples of file systems that work have been tested (to varying degrees) include sshfs, ntfs-3g (read/write NTFS), ftpfs (read/write FTP), wdfs (WebDAV), cryptofs, encfs, bindfs, unionfs, beaglefs (yes, including the entire Beagle paraphernalia), and so on."
Great things look to be had from this unique project.
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