Archive for the 'Mac OS X' Category

procfs for Mac OS X

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

I’ve made available a MacFUSE-Based process file system for Mac OS X. Source code is included.

Google Desktop for the Mac: A Video

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

I just realized that my “posting” of the link to this nice tech video never got posted (network glitches are common in my current location). The prolific Mike Pinkerton, who is the tech lead of the Google Desktop for the Mac project, made this video demonstrating some neat features of the product.

Updates to MacFUSE and SSHFS

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

MacFUSE 0.2.5 and SSHFS for MacFUSE 0.2.0 bring several important and useful updates to the user. Changelog for MacFUSE Changelog for SSHFS

MacFUSE 0.2.2, More Source Code!

Monday, February 26th, 2007

On the MacFUSE Project Page, you now have a new release of MacFUSE Core. Please be sure to upgrade as this fixes a nasty bug. Besides, in the filesystems-objc subdirectory, you’ll find source for the Objective-C library that we used to create the file systems shown in the MacFUSE Tech Demos video. You will also [...]

MacFUSE 0.2.0

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

A new release is up at the MacFUSE project page. 0.2.0 adds several new features and fixes several bugs. New features include support for kqueue/kevent, advisory locking, full extended attributes support, support for extended security (ACLs), support for “direct I/O” (this allows the user-space file system to return less data than the file’s size, and [...]

MacFUSE 0.1.9

Monday, January 29th, 2007

There’s a new, much improved release of MacFUSE.

New MacFUSE Release, SpotlightFS, SSHFS…

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

There’s an exciting new release of MacFUSE up on the project’s web site. Even better, you can now also download SpotlightFS (you’ll have to try it out to see how cool it is) and a graphical interface for sshfs. Enjoy!

Video: MacFUSE Tech Demos

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

The MacFUSE project page now contains a link to a brief video of some tech demos that I showed during my Macworld 2007 talk.

Macworld 2007, File Systems Talk, and MacFUSE

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

I gave a talk titled “Taming Mac OS X File Systems” at Macworld 2007 today. I also announced Google’s open source release of MacFUSE. Here are some relevant links: The MacFUSE Page on Google Code List of Wiki Articles on the Project Page Slides from the Talk Besides internal tech demos that I demonstrated during [...]

File Systems Are Cool

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

Let us try to make them a little cooler on Mac OS X.


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