Nice!, and great work!, thank you so much. So, with this new support, there's some "black magic" to mount a ext2/3/4 filesystem on OSX?. Maybe you can help me and help every person that's looking for this, also, I install fuse4x and fuse4x-kext from homebrew, OSX Lion 10.7.
Thank you! On Thursday, February 16, 2012 6:07:12 PM UTC-5, Anatol Pomozov wrote: > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/macfuse/-/KWvcb3eti3sJ. 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.
