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I cannot see any reason whatsoever, that this has to run in the kernel.
by maze-le 10y ago
I cannot see any reason whatsoever, that this has to run in the kernel.
- tim333 10y agoI guess when a program asks to read a file, dropbox has to intervene at quite a low level to get it from a remote server rather than the local file system where the program thinks it is.
- grimborg 10y agoOn Linux you can use Fuse in userland. On OSX I'm not sure.
- bobwaycott 10y agoFuse filesystems on OS X are user-land applications entirely outside the kernel. However, I believe OSXFUSE itself, atop which the filesystems are built and operate, requires/includes a kernel extension. (Edited for better explanation than initial wording)
- boduh 10y agoThat's right. OSXFUSE includes a kernel extension (https://github.com/osxfuse/kext https://github.com/osxfuse/kext). There is no other technical way to achieve this without a kernel extension on both Windows and OSX.
- jarman 10y agoThere is FUSE on OSX, but Dropbox said it was not performant enough for them
- beagle3 10y agoFuse in Linux also requires a kernel module. It's just that it is available everywhere these days.