Hi, I am glad to announce a new release of Fuse4X <http://fuse4x.org>. This release is remarkable as it introduces new great features that has been waited by many people.
The most exciting feature in this release is the Macfuse compatibility layer. It allows you to run applications that are compiled against Macfuse. Try it <https://github.com/downloads/fuse4x/fuse4x/Fuse4X-0.8.15.dmg>! You'll see how it's easy. You might ask "But why should I use Fuse4X, there is already Macfuse and a bunch of its flavors floating around here". Read on! The Fuse4X mission is to make a "Fuse reference implementation" for MacOSX. You might already heard that Fuse library originates from Linux and Macfuse is a port of it to MacOSX. Unfortunately MacFUSE behavior and API differs from the one at Linux. Users usually do not see it but if you are a developer who works on cross-platform filesystems then this might bring you a lot of problems. From the very first day Fuse4X set "compatibility with Linux" as a goal #1. Some filesystems that do not work with macfuse work perfectly fine with fuse4x. Other important feature is speed - tests for NTFS-3G (installed from macports) show that copying large files under fuse4x is about twice faster than with macfuse. For high-latency filesystems (such as sshfs) improvement is not so impressive, but still measurable. Other areas where the speed is greatly improved is mount, this operation is ~3 times faster than in macfuse. Fuse4X is the default fuse implementation in the main macosx package systems such as MacPorts, Homebrew and Fink. This is not a surprise - package managers have a lot of ad-hoc filesystems and most of them are cross-platform. These filesystems require consistent Fuse behavior between Linux and MacOSX, and Fuse4X provides such consistency. There is no reason to split people who uses package managers and those who does not use it - anyone can enjoy using Fuse4X. Just install fuse4x from the binary package<https://github.com/downloads/fuse4x/fuse4x/Fuse4X-0.8.15.dmg>and use advantages of both of the worlds. The latest Fuse4X distribution you can find at https://github.com/downloads/fuse4x/fuse4x/Fuse4X-0.9.0.dmg Enjoy! -- 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.
