MacFUSE allows you to extend Mac OS X's native file handling capabilities via 3rd-party file systems. It is used as a software building block by dozens of products.
macfuse allows you to extend mac os x's native file handling capabilities via 3rdparty file systems. it is used as a software building block by dozens of products.
as a user, installing the macfuse software package will let you use any 3rdparty file system written atop macfuse.
as a developer, you can use the macfuse sdk to write numerous types of new file systems as regular usermode programs. the content of these file systems can come from anywhere: from the local disk, from across the network, from memory, or any other combination of sources. writing a file system using macfuse is orders of magnitude easier and quicker than the traditional approach of writing inkernel file systems. since macfuse file systems are regular applications (as opposed to kernel extensions), you have just as much flexibility and choice in programming tools, debuggers, and libraries as you have if you were developing standard mac os x applications.
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