03-06-2007, 09:07 PM

MacDevCenter has a cool article for all you tinkerers, code buffs or Unix geeks. It's a bout something written by Amit Singh who is an ultra cool dude, has a great website and wrote a book I'd like to buy one day.

Anyway, let's get back to business here. The link to the article, MacFUSE: New Frontiers in File Systems:

If you're a typical Mac programmer or user, chances are your main concern with files is reading from and writing to them, opening and saving them. You probably haven't thought much about adding support for other file systems or actually implementing your own file system from scratch—why on earth would you want to do that?

Well, no matter what kind of Mac user you are, there's a new development in the somewhat arcane world of file systems that's bound to be interesting to you: MacFUSE. Simply put, MacFUSE takes something that was incredibly hard—adding new file systems to Mac OS X—and makes it much, much easier. In this article, I'll explain why file system support is generally hard, how MacFUSE makes it easier, and why you should care. ...

MacFUSE video

MacFUSE is the Mac OS X implementation of the FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) API.

For anyone curious about Amit Singh's website here ya go: kernelthread.com/. And you can get info on his book right here: Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach, by Amit Singh.

03-07-2007, 06:23 AM

Thanks for the link- I love reading his articles.

03-07-2007, 06:02 PM

karudzo, did you read his book? Think it's easy enough to understand?