Archive for the 'MacFUSE' Category
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Quoting my Google Mac Blog post in its entirety: A new version of MacFUSE is now available. As always, you can download a ready-to-install prebuilt package, or browse the ready-to-build source. Besides bug fixes and other minor improvements, there is a major new developer feature in this release: an Objective-C framework is now part of [...]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
A while ago, I wrote about procfs for Mac OS X, a MacFUSE-based file system. Subsequently, I added more cool features to my procfs implementation. Recently, I had reason to demonstrate procfs again and realized that I needed still more cool features. That need led to GrabFS. In a pinch, GrabFS is a file system [...]
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
A new release of MacFUSE is here. There is a new version for Leopard, a new version for Tiger, and a new version of sshfs.app that runs on both Tiger and Leopard. Downloads: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/downloads/list Documentation: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/w/list
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Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
A few weeks ago, I released as open source a MacFUSE-based process file system for Mac OS X. I recently added several new features to this procfs implementation. Some of these features are "cool" in that they put a new twist on certain types of visual information. For example, there’s a folder /proc/system/hardware/displays/ that contains [...]
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Friday, June 1st, 2007
We did a MacFUSE talk at Google last week: Video on YouTube
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
People are welcome to join us at Google on Thursday, May 24, for an open-to-public talk on all things MacFUSE. I’m told that “Doors open at 6:30PM at Google’s Mountain View campus. Guests should plan to sign in at Building 41 reception upon arrival. Refreshments will be served…” Here’s an abstract: File systems provide one [...]
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
I’ve made available a MacFUSE-Based process file system for Mac OS X. Source code is included.
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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
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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