macFUSE
FUSE for macOS allows you to extend macOS via third-party file systems
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
What is macFUSE?
Features : As a user, installing the macFUSE software package will let you use any third-party FUSE file system. Legacy MacFUSE file systems are supported through the optional MacFUSE compatibility layer.
As a developer, you can use the FUSE SDK to write numerous types of new file systems as regular user space 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 FUSE is orders of magnitude easier and quicker than the traditional approach of writing in-kernel file systems. Since FUSE 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 macOS applications.
How It Works : In more technical terms, FUSE implements a mechanism that makes it possible to implement a fully functional file system in a user-space program on macOS. It provides multiple APIs, one of which is a superset of the FUSE API (file system in user space) that originated on Linux. Therefore, many existing FUSE file systems become readily usable on macOS.
The macFUSE software consists of a kernel extension and various user space libraries and tools. It comes with C-based and Objective-C-based SDKs. If you prefer another language (say, Python or Java), you should be able to create file systems in those languages after you install the relevant language bindings yourself.
The filesystems repository contains source code for several exciting and useful file systems for you to browse, compile, and build upon, such as sshfs, procfs, AccessibilityFS, GrabFS, LoopbackFS, SpotlightFS, and YouTubeFS.
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Said about macFUSE as an alternative
FUSE, along with ext2fuse and ext4fuse, is the only alternative to Paragon's extFS for Mac. Unless Tuxera comes out with something.
Recent user activities on macFUSE
Rakleed added macFUSE as alternative(s) to Tuxera NTFS for Mac
yaoqb added macFUSE as alternative(s) to Hasleo NTFS for Mac
POX edited macFUSE
If you're like me, the only reason you would install OSXFuse is to enable support for NTFS-3G in Lion and Mountain Lion. In which case, you've come to the right app. OSXFuse works great for that.
You'll probably also want to install the fuse-wait patch. Otherwise, NTFS-3G will you give you mounting errors every time you boot Mac OS X, even with OSXFuse installed.