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>3rd party supporting a file system would be one of the last things on a list of all software I’d ever want a 3rd party writing instead of the OS maker. Given

>3rd party supporting a file system would be one of the last things on a list of all software I’d ever want a 3rd party writing instead of the OS maker. Given how many people use FUSE, Paragon NTFS for Mac, and similar tools, you're hardly totally representative.

i80and 1y ago
Third party read-write NTFS drivers took FOREVER to become really robust. I remember hearing horror stories not infrequently up until maybe a decade or less ago.
whywhywhywhy 1y ago
> Given how many people use FUSE What percentage of MacOS users even know what that is. I mean I am in the percent but I know it's sub 0.001
- euazOn 1y ago
  Well there’s at least two of us.
- conception 1y ago
  They don’t need to know it to use it. I’ve seen a fair number of commercial cloud drive products use it.
- pdpi 1y ago
  MacOS users' awareness of a mostly linux centric piece of tech is pretty damn irrelevant here. The point is that FUSE is a pretty mature piece of technology, and we know that it can be used productively without being that nightmare scenario you described. There is no reason why Apple's FSKit can't be equally successful.
__float 1y ago
Do many people use macFUSE? I thought ever since the license change it's really dropped off.
- mrln 1y ago
  There's fuse-t, which uses a local network filesystem in the background, iirc. Edit: but to be fair, that's mostly only relevant for unsupported network filesystems like sshfs...
mihaaly 1y ago
They trust kernel extensions apparently, all of them.
- coldtea 1y ago
  Like 99% of the computer using world until less than a decade ago, when almost all drivers were kernel extensions and things like kexts were very much used?
VonGallifrey 1y ago
> Given how many people use How many people use software like this because they have no choice? I used Paragon NTFS, but the entire time, I thought it was ridiculous that MacOS can't read NTFS on its own.

i80and 1y ago

Third party read-write NTFS drivers took FOREVER to become really robust. I remember hearing horror stories not infrequently up until maybe a decade or less ago.

whywhywhywhy 1y ago

> Given how many people use FUSE What percentage of MacOS users even know what that is. I mean I am in the percent but I know it's sub 0.001

euazOn 1y ago
Well there’s at least two of us.
conception 1y ago
They don’t need to know it to use it. I’ve seen a fair number of commercial cloud drive products use it.
pdpi 1y ago
MacOS users' awareness of a mostly linux centric piece of tech is pretty damn irrelevant here. The point is that FUSE is a pretty mature piece of technology, and we know that it can be used productively without being that nightmare scenario you described. There is no reason why Apple's FSKit can't be equally successful.

__float 1y ago

Do many people use macFUSE? I thought ever since the license change it's really dropped off.

mrln 1y ago
There's fuse-t, which uses a local network filesystem in the background, iirc. Edit: but to be fair, that's mostly only relevant for unsupported network filesystems like sshfs...

mihaaly 1y ago

They trust kernel extensions apparently, all of them.

coldtea 1y ago
Like 99% of the computer using world until less than a decade ago, when almost all drivers were kernel extensions and things like kexts were very much used?

VonGallifrey 1y ago

> Given how many people use How many people use software like this because they have no choice? I used Paragon NTFS, but the entire time, I thought it was ridiculous that MacOS can't read NTFS on its own.