Hey Jesse, Have you made any progress on this project? I don't know much about FUSE, but I'm a user of WriteRoom and TaskPaper, so it might be fun to help out with this.
Regards, Steve Irradiated Software On Sep 24, 8:52 am, Jesse Grosjean <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been playing around trying to learn MacFuse using the Objective-c > api. The LoopbackFS filesystem was good for this, except for me it was > still hard to figure out what I needed to implement (when doing my own > read/write file system), since the LoopbackFS delegates so much of > it's behavior the the standard file system. > > Because of this I've been trying to create a generic read/write > "InMemory" example. The idea is to create a full read/write filesystem > (like LoopbackFS), but do it all in memory in Objective-c code, so > that its easy to trace and see exactly what needs to be done to create > a generic filesystem that works well through the Finder. > > I have a first version of this project up and working here: > > http://github.com/jessegrosjean/macfuseinmemory > > It seems to work, but I don't really know much about filesystems, so > I'm sure there are issues. > > In particular: > > - userData is set in readFileAtPath but not in writeFileAtPath even > though openFileAtPath and releaseFileAtPath are implemented. I'm not > sure if this is my bug, a macfuse bug, or just me misunderstanding > what is supposed to happen. > - I'm not sure if I'm mapping the read/write methods into the Items > fileContents (NSMutableData) correctly. > - I'm not dealing with error codes, except for ENOENT. > - I'm not sure if I'm missing any cases in [Item itemByResolvingPath:] > - When a new symbolic link is created I'm not sure if it's supposed to > get any default attributes. > - I'm not sure if setAttributes is supposed to replace all existing > attributes, or only replaced attribtes specified in the newAttributes > dictionary. > > Thanks for tips and help. Use the code anyway you want. I think it > woud be cool if someone who knew what they were doing would review > this project, rename/make changes as they wish, and then include it as > an example in the MacFuse package. I know that for me at least this > sort of example would really help. > > Thanks, > Jesse --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
