MacFUSE and FUSE only provides a user space API for building a file system and responding to the calls that the kernel does. Providing your backing store (e.g. communicating with the USB block device or what ever you do) is still up to you.
Sam Moffatt http://pasamio.id.au On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Eriko Werbet <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have just written a small flash file system for an embedded system, > which couldn't run a "full" OS like a conventional Linux distro or > even uCLinux for that matter, since the hardware is very resource- > restricted. > > I have a few ideas to improve that flash file system, but I would like > to install the new version of the file system into a USB stick, so I > can work on it on my Mac, instead of having to work on the hardware > that received the first port. > > So, I have been reading about the Virtual File System Switcher on the > kernel, and how MacFUSE provides a way to plug a custom FS on it, but > as far as I know it does not handle the API to access a USB stick, for > instance, or any other data source. Is that correct? I mean, do I need > to use a OS specific API to access a USB stick on my new FS, or is > there another way around using MacFUSE? > > Thanks in advance for your time. > > Eriko. > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
