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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. FUSE for Windows by Cyberax · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm writing FUSE for Windows at my spare time (not much of it, unfortunately). Is there anybody who's doing the same?

    1. Re:FUSE for Windows by Cyberax · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Yes, if they don't use any Linux/Unix-specific features. User-space part of FUSE, however, will have be modified (because there's no fork() in Windows).

      Release is FAAAAAAAAR away now, I expect to get something working in 3-4 months.

    2. Re:FUSE for Windows by dangitman · · Score: 4, Funny

      (because there's no fork() in Windows)

      If there's no fork, then how do you eat your meat (and consequently get the pudding)?

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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. Re:FUSE for Windows by dal20402 · · Score: 5, Funny

      there's no fork() in Windows

      You don't need to stick a fork() in. It's easy to see that Windows is done.

    6. Re:FUSE for Windows by TheNetAvenger · · Score: 4, Interesting

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

      Why is this such a great goal, when FS developers have been trying to meet the basic features of NTFS already...

      NTFS already does journalling, has file versioning (far beyond what any *nix FS does), encyrption, compression, and with Win32, zip and rar integration.

      The trick in writing a FS for Windows isn't so much a NT issue, but how Win32 see the FS and what it expects to be there. This can best be demonstrated with the Unix subsystem on Windows, or how NFS is handled.

      BTW, this is kind of a baited post to see how well people really do understand NTFS and also what they are trying to accomplish.

      For developers interested there are some good resources and help on writing FS for NT, like at: http://www.osronline.com/cf.cfm?PageURL=showlists. CFM?list=NTFSD

      Take Care...

  3. Re:FUSE? by Ash-Fox · · Score: 4, Informative
    Can anone point out what 'FUSE' is?
    Runs filesystems in userspace.
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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. How about ext3? by MMC+Monster · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How about ext3 support on Intel macs? I tried the sourceforge project about a year ago and it didn't work.

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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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  10. Cocoa Fuse GUI by mgorbach228 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm working on a Cocoa GUI for FUSE (currently called MacFusion). The idea is that it loads plugins for supported filesystems (working right now on SSHFS, NTFS-3G and FTPFS at first). The plugins provide a configuration interface and code to mount/unmount. I'm hoping that this GUI will make FUSE goodness easily accessible to non-technical non-console people. In the future, it should be simple to support encfs, gmailfs, etc. This will be a FOSS project once a first build is ready. Anyone who wants to help is welcome, as are suggestions of any kind on the features/interface.