Count me as interested aswell! [Maybe a first question to the kfs list:] I would like to know if distributing apps that use code that relies on such functionality is allowed on the Mac Store.
-- Paul Eipper On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Zoran Vasiljevic <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > YES. This is most interesting. We tried to use the FUSE port for the Mac > for some projects but have given up because of the 64-bit issues and the > complexity related. From your text, it seems that we can completely avoid > such troubles... I am very interested to check this out. > > Cheers, > Zoran > Archiware GmbH > > On 18.03.2011, at 17:02, [email protected] wrote: > >> With the growing number of Macs shipping with a 64-bit kernel enabled by >> default and the confusion regarding support of MacFUSE 64-bit support, we >> recently looked into alternatives to using MacFUSE for one of our >> applications. What we came up with was a solution that allows you to >> implement userspace filesystems using technology already in the kernel — >> NFS. This allows for a library that can easily be distributed and completely >> contained within .app bundles and requires no administrative permissions to >> use. There's also no kext to go with it. There's a bit more information >> about this below, but if anyone is interested, the code can be found here: >> https://bitbucket.org/fadingred/kfs >> >> We haven't set up a mailing list for this, but feel free to email me >> directly if this project is something that you're interested in, and I'll go >> ahead and set up a list if there's a lot of interest. This is not a drop in >> replacement for MacFUSE, and there isn't Objective-C support (yet) — just C. >> MacFUSE will still be preferable for many applications, but this may be a >> good alternative for others. >> >> More information (from the Readme): >> >> The Kernelless Filesystem (KFS) is a small library that allows you to create >> filesystems in user space. KFS differs >> from libraries that provide similar functionality in that it does not >> require any kernel extensions to be >> installed in order to operate. >> >> The library runs in userspace and allows applications to create new types of >> filesystems and mount them directly in >> userspace. It uses existing functionality that ships with the OS kernel in >> order to do this. >> >> Currently, KFS runs on Mac OS X 10.5+. It is backed by kernel support for >> NFS. It runs an NFS3 server in order to >> create filesystems. The KFS library does not create any new processes. It >> runs entirely within the host process, and >> creates a new thread in order to handle filesystem requests. It only spawns >> one thread to handle filesystem requests, >> so it does not support asynchronous filesystem designs. That is, if you have >> two read requests they will be queued and >> the second will not begin until the first completes. >> >> KFS uses CoreFoundation lightly, but otherwise could easily be ported to >> other platforms. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Whitney Young >> FadingRed >> [email protected] >> www.fadingred.com >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- 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.
