Hi all, in September Erik Larsson posted "Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2010.9-RC" on his blog at http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/2010/09/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac-20109-rc.html.
One of the notable changes in the RC is the full support of Snow Leopard's 64 bit kernel. This has been achieved by customizing MacFUSE and integrating it in Tuxera's NTFS driver (after rebranding it as "tufs"). So it is not much use to the rest of us. Thank-worthy is the fact that Tuxera releases the source code of "tufs". It took me some time but I "back-ported" the changes the guys at Tuxera made (aka tufs 201010.07) to the trunk version of MacFUSE. Applying the changes to the fusefs.fs component was fairly easy since all the hard work had been done by Tuxera. But the MacFUSE autoinstaller component seems to be pretty messed up in the trunk version of the MacFUSE svn and took most of the time. I built MacFUSE 2.1.7 using the Mac OS X 10.6 SDK supporting the architectures i386 and x86_64. The build most definitively will not work under Leopard or Tiger but I did not verify this. I did some testing and never got a kernel panic or data corruption. If someone is wondering, testing was done by repeatedly copying 100 random data files of different file sizes simultaneously to a NTFS formatted volume and comparing the copies to the original files afterwards. The files were an exact match every time. As far as I understand Amit's comments in the past this test should have triggered a kernel panic in the unofficial MacFUSE build released by someone else some month ago, where just two safeguards had been commented but no locking mechanisms were applied. Despite the fact that my tests went well I consider my modifications to MacFUSE beta. Feel free to download the unofficial MacFUSE build from the link below and give it a try. But be warned that this is an unofficial beta and I'm not responsible for any data loss or damage you might encounter using it. In other words: I'm fairly new to this and if your Mac explodes don't blame me :-) http://www.mediafire.com/?qpt4bdp0yqak7x4 Feedback is highly appreciated. Benjamin -- 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.
