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On Linux you can use Fuse in userland. On OSX I'm not sure.
by grimborg 10y ago
On 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.