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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. Great News! by RAMMS+EIN · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is great news! Finally, there's an easy way to develop filesystems for multiple operating systems. Maybe I'll pick up my netfs project again now. Anyone working on porting FUSE to *BSD?

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  2. Re:Yet more Linux - OSX leeching by moderators_are_w*nke · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you're not flamebaiting then you probably want a serious answer. My guess is twofold:

    - Mac has a culture of charging small amounts of money for software released commercially rather than open sourcing things (e.g. TextMate). This dates to before the OSX days.

    - People writing code for Macs tend to use Cocoa because its the easiest way to do it and this doesn't port easily to other systems.

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