libosxfuse
). The in-kernel file system is specific to OS X and is not based on Linux FUSE. (Some of its code is based on the FreeBSD implementation of FUSE.) The user-space library (libosxfuse
), which provides the developer-visible FUSE API, has numerous OS X specific extensions and features./Library/Filesystems/osxfusefs.fs
/Library/Frameworks/OSXFUSE.framework
/usr/local/lib/libosxfuse*.dylib
and headers /usr/local/include/osxfuse*
/Library/PreferencePanes/OSXFUSE.prefPane
osxfusefs.fs
bundle in turn contains most of the core 'FUSE for OS X' software. Besides bundle metadata, its components include:osxfusefs.kext
mount_osxfusefs
load_osxfusefs
autoinstall-osxfuse-core
uninstall-osxfuse-core
/Library/Frameworks/MacFUSE.framework
/usr/local/lib/libfuse*.dylib
and headers /usr/local/include/macfuse*
/Library/Preferences/com.github.osxfuse.plist
. To remove it, you should un-check the button before you remove the preference pane as described above./dev/disk{number}
style node. Such a real disk device node in 'FUSE for OS X's case is problematic: at mount time, for a local volume, the kernel woulditself open the device node and pass it to 'FUSE for OS X'. In doing so, the kernel would make sure that the device is not currently in use (for one, to disallow multiple mounts of the same device). This happens before control passes to 'FUSE for OS X' and mounting can proceed. This would have been fine if the entire file system lived in the kernel, but in 'FUSE for OS X's case, the user space file system program would also want to (exclusively) open the disk device.-o local
mount-time option. This has caveats though: the Finder (and the operating system in general) may try to do things differently with local volumes. Some of these different things may not be what you want - for example, you may not want a .Trashes
directory created on your volume. (It may not even be possible to create that directory in the case of certain file systems)Finder > Preferences > General > Connected servers
is checked, or you can use the defaults
command from Terminal:defaults
to set its value to 1:-o local
mount-time option to tag the volume being mounted as 'local', in which case it would show up on the Desktop unless you have disabled 'external disks' from showing up on the Desktop.-o local
mount-time option. Also see questions 4.1 and 4.2.Go > Computer
in Finder's menu bar.allow_other
and allow_root
mount-time options.gdb
on an executable residing on a 'FUSE for OS X' file system but I got an 'operation not permitted' error. What is going on?gdb
is a setgid executable on Mac OS X (see /usr/libexec/*gdb*
). Therefore, under 'FUSE for OS X's default mode of operation, it will not have access to 'FUSE for OS X' volumes. See the previous questions.fusermount
program anywhere.umount
command in OS X. You do not need the Linux-specific fusermount
with 'FUSE for OS X'.volname
command-line mount-time option.-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_DARWIN_USE_64_BIT_INODE
in CFLAGS
unless it is already there (-D_DARWIN_USE_64_BIT_INODE
is only needed when targeting Mac OS X 10.5). Try something like:fuse.pc
file in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
. This, in conjunction with the pkg-config
program, will automatically cause -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_DARWIN_USE_64_BIT_INODE
to be included in CFLAGS
. If your particular installation of pkg-config
(say, through MacPorts) does not look under /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
by default, you can set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH
to /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
.