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Plethora of New User Space Filesystems For Mac OS X

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

DaringDan writes "As part of the recent MacFUSE 2.0 release Amit Singh has added support for an insane number of filesystems on the Mac. This video from Google and this blog post pretty much explain everything in detail but to sum-up Singh has written a new filesystem called AncientFS which lets you mount a ton of UNIX file formats starting from the very first version of UNIX. Even more interesting is that they have also taken Linux kernel implementations of filesystems like ufs, sysv-fs, minix-fs and made them work in user-space on the Mac, which means its now possible to read disks from OSes like FreeBSD, Solaris and NeXT on OS X. ext2/ext3 don't seem to be on the list but apparently the source for everything is provided, so hopefully some enterprising soul can apply the same techniques to ext2. One of their demos even has the old UNIX kernel compiled directly on the Mac through the original PDP C compiler by somehow executing the PDP binaries on OS X!"

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  1. News? by Facetious · · Score: -1, Troll

    How is this news while the Mac Blue Screen problem upon upgrade thing isn't mentioned anywhere on the front page? (It was news on other sites yesterday.)

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    1. Re:News? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Because you love sucking cock. Why isn't that news?

    2. Re:News? by buswolley · · Score: -1, Troll
      I'm only going to say this once. I will never say this ever again in my entire lifetime of Slashdot postings. But here goes..

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      Macs are gay.

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    3. Re:News? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      fuck you

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      nigger.

      god dammit.

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    4. Re:News? by Anpheus · · Score: 0, Troll

      you mean BARELY causing? I am sorry but ten thousand or so postings when there are over a billion Windows users out there is NOT in my mind major trouble.

  2. So what? by Brad_McBad · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ummm... Why bother? If the functionality is really *that* important, why not just install Linux, which already has support for these filesystems? I mean, if you've got a hard on for a proprietary OS that crashes just as much as modern versions of windows do (albeit with less bloat) then I get it. But only then.