I think it's great that MacFUSE can behave in a Mac-like fashion in
terms of mounted volumes showing up on the Desktop w/ the (in my
opinion, strange) mount point turning into some manner of link in the
Finder.

However, I would love an option that would allow mounts to be
transparent to the Finder/MacOS layer.  That is, the way they work in
the Unix-like paradigm, bypassing Core File Manager/Disk Arbitration.
I realize this violates the Mac OS mount/unmount drag-drop interface
style, but it has (what I consider) benefits:

- As is, you can't drag a mount-point folder into a Finder side bar,
because it's not a "real" folder. This is Finder's fault, but it seems
like an easy workaround would be to handle mounting at unix layer
exclusively. I'd prefer clicking on the folder in the sidebar and
having it be empty when unmounted rather than not being able to do it
at all.
(I realize that the volume shows up in the top portion of that
sidebar, but given that I might have 15 network volumes mounted,
having a consistently placed shortcut in the bottom portion would be
valuable)
- Consistent volume icons on the mount point? (metadata in general
which is more signifcant)

Does the Finder (as I fear) make this impossible?  The fact that it
might return wrong information in the 'Get Info' box I see as an
acceptable trade off.

Could I get this behavior by just compiling FUSE under MacOS? (if so,
sorry to waste your time, but wouldn't that make it easy to retain as
an option?)

I would never argue for only unix-style mounting ability, but I think
having it as an option would be awesome.

Great project, cheers.


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