* MacFUSE has to go out of its way to make the Finder and Disk
Arbitration happy. If you want to bypass that behavior, you can you
the 'noping_diskarb' mount-time option. If you traverse to the mount
point later from the UI, the Finder will be a bit confused about the
mount point. You don't have the option of bypassing the Finder
altogether. The Finder is a user application, that can be told to go
to a certain directory, after all.

* What do you mean by "just compiling FUSE under Mac OS"? FUSE is an
API (a specification), with an implementation for Linux, another for
BSD, another for Mac OS X (MacFUSE), and so on. It is a *file system*,
and much of it lives in the kernel. You can't "just compile" a file
system across different operating systems. You have to *reimplement*.
Most people use the term "porting", but to be pedantic, porting
usually implies starting from a given code base, making some typically
not-so-major modifications, and recompiling. MacFUSE is not a port in
this respect: it's a different implementation of a given
specification.

Amit

On May 4, 2:37 pm, froog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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