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FUSE Port Brings NTFS Support To OS X

Posted by kdawson on from the circuit-breaker dept.

sciurus0 writes "In his session at Macworld on OS X filesytems, Google's Amit Singh announced that he has ported Linux's FUSE module to OS X. The port is called MacFUSE and it is available in source form and as a pre-compiled kernel extension with associated tools. Many FUSE filesystems such as sshfs and ntfs-3g are reported to work."

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  1. GmailFS also by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    GmailFS should also now be easily supported on Mac OS X using MacFuse.

  2. Re:FUSE? by Ash-Fox · · Score: 4, Informative
    Can anone point out what 'FUSE' is?
    Runs filesystems in userspace.
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  3. Re:FUSE? by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 4, Informative
    Can anone point out what 'FUSE' is?---I know i am lazy, no need to state the obvious.


    Try http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ - basically, when I hear of an Open Source project I've not heard of before, I just go to "nameofprojectgoeshere.sourceforge.net", and (more often than not) there it is. And there it was. :)

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  4. The creator of FUSE... by little1973 · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...Miklos Szeredi was offered a job by SUSE Labs, Prague, which he accepted. His job will be kernel developement for SUSE (all GPL, of course). IIRC, he can work on FUSE in 10% of his work time.

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  5. Precompiled read/write NTFS packages by irgu · · Score: 5, Informative

    The original NTFS-3G source code doesn't compile on Mac OS X without some changes but the MacFUSE and NTFS-3G precompiled packages are available from IUseThis.

  6. Re:Doh. mount_ntfs is already there by irgu · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mount_ntfs doesn't have full read/write possibility. NTFS-3G has and it's commonly used on Linux.

  7. Re:FUSE for Windows by odie_q · · Score: 4, Informative

    FUSE is a general Filesystem-in-userspace driver, supporting a long list of filesystems.

    So with FUSE ported, Windows users can also enjoy in-filesystem versioning, seamless ssh integration, RAR files as folders and so on.

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  8. Re:FUSE for Windows by raynet · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, FUSE is not NTFS. FUSE allows you to write userspace filesystem modules via stable and fairly simple API. Thus if you had FUSE for Windows, you could add new filesystems to Windows with relative ease. Also you could port the same modules to Mac, Linux and BSD or vice versa.

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  9. Re:FUSE? by Paulrothrock · · Score: 4, Informative

    I saw that definition when I first heard about FUSE and thought "Okay, so what's userspace?" For those who don't know: Userspace is the thing you're using right now. Rather than having the filesystem buried down deep in the bowels of the system, FUSE puts it above most of the stuff the OS does. That way, you can tell the OS things like "See those collection of Gmail messages to myself or RAR files or tarballs? That's a filesystem. You can move stuff onto and off of it just like another disk." FUSE is an easy, open source way of writing things that use unconventional storage methods for files.

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