Hi, Benjamin Thanks for your reply. The TimeMachine does not work with sparse image any more in Lion (OSX 10.7). But it still work with USB external drive. With the external USB drive, it is not required to generate sparse image, just set that drive to be backup disk and the TimeMachine goes well.
My plan is to simulate the behavior of external USB drive by creating a virtual drive. I am confusing if the OSXFuse/MacFuse is the only framework that I can base on, or It is still required to work with IOKit. ( http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/DeviceDrivers/Conceptual/WritingDeviceDriver/Introduction/Intro.html) The OS X seems to have 2 kinds of "virtual disk". Regards, Iap 2011/7/24 Benjamin Fleischer <[email protected]> > Hi lap, > > I'm not exactly sure what you try to accomplish. You can find several > how-tos on the internet how to setup a sparse image/bundle (Disk Utility) to > use as a Time Machine backup location. If I remember correctly those spares > images can be on another partition/drive or a network share. I don't know > the actual steps needed to get this setup working, but it is not to hard to > find some instructions on the internet. > > You would only need MacFUSE or OSXFUSE if the partition/drive you want to > use as backup location uses a MacFUSE filesystem, for example NTFS-3G or > possibly sshfs in case of a network share. But AFAIK you would still need to > create a sparse image/bunde on your MacFUSE volume for Time Machine to > accept it as a backup location. > > Regards > 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.
