MacFUSE

Amit Singh has ported FUSE (File System in User Space) to Mac OS X:

FUSE makes it possible to implement a very functional file system in a normal program rather than requiring a complex addition to the operating system. More importantly, the FUSE API is very easy to program for. The large number of interesting and/or useful FUSE file systems out there is a testament to this. An often-cited example of such a useful file system is sshfs, which until now was not available on Mac OS X.

The biggest immediate practical upside is read/write access to NTFS volumes.

★ Friday, 12 January 2007