Amit Singh wrote: > On Nov 4, 7:37 pm, Erik Larsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is not possible by simply installing MacFUSE. But it would be >> possible to create such a solution that uses MacFUSE. I have already >> > > The original poster wanted a "virtual folder ... without mounting an > additional file system". That's *not possible* with MacFUSE. Something > will have to be mounted somewhere (at least one mount point) for > MacFUSE to be involved. Absolutely. > I'm talking about what the OP was saying, not > what he might have been thinking. We often use terms such as "mount" > and "file system" rather vaguely, but we don't have to--especially in > a forum such as this. >
I was trying to interpret what Oleg may have been thinking, since he seemed kind of uninformed about file systems and mount points. I was interpreting his words from a user-centric point of view. (: > That said, for the example being discussed, you could have a single > "compression file system" so that it will use one mount point, and > will then make contents of any number of archives available as > subfolders within that mount point. You could use one of many policies > for making the subfolders appear and disappear. For example, double > clicking on a .zip could cause a subfolder to appear. It could > disappear after no activity (no files accessed within it) for some > timeout period. It could also disappear if the original .zip was > deleted. There could also be an option to make it disappear > explicitly. Etc. > That is an intresting idea. One could also play around and create a file system which replicates the entire file system tree under a specific mount point, but that replaces all supported container file formats like zip and rar with browsable folders. That probably doesn't have much to do with the original question, but it might be fun/useful anyway. >> .rar, .zip, etc.. file systems. (Maybe this can be avoided with some >> noping_diskarb option) >> > > On Leopard and above, you don't have the option of not "pinging". The > 'noping_diskarb' and 'ping_diskarb' options are silently ignored > beginning with the Leopard version of MacFUSE. > Is there no way to mount something without DiskArbitration/Finder noticing it? When typing "mount" I get a list of various mounts (automount, volfs, devfs) that aren't showing up in Finder, though that may be hard coded. Of course, nonlocal mounts don't manifest themselves very loudly in the Leopard Finder, so it doesn't have to be an issue. > Anyway, the Finder is a closed system. It's not extensible to fit the > needs of third party file systems. It's not friendly towards anything > except the built-in OS X file systems. In fact, several aspects of it > are blatantly hardcoded. However, to end users, a "file system" is > "what you see in the Finder." Therein lies the fundamental problem. > Amen. Still, we can't fix the Finder, so there's no option but to play along with its awkward rules. - Erik --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacFUSE" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
