osxfuse VS HomeBrew

macFUSE discussion: https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/issues/1025

Install macFUSE, thank me later: https://osxfuse.github.io

I didn't exactly use any 'tutorial'. Assumming you can already SSH to the target machine, you just need to install both these pkgs then reboot to 1TR Recovery Mode and choosing Reduced Security and choose to enable Kernel Extension and then reboot again goto Security & Privacy and Allow the extension, and that's it you can now use it.

Yeah, FUSE is Linux only. But for completeness, for macs there is macFUSE, and for Windows there is winfsp. Both of these have fewer filesystems than FUSE, and I've used neither so I don't know how well they work.

https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/List-of-macFUSE-File...

https://winfsp.dev/doc/Known-File-Systems/

Weird. Where did you download (lat/new)est MacFuse from? https://osxfuse.github.io/ I hope!

I lead a project that included shipping a filesystem driver and a virtual disk on Windows.

What I did to learn the lower-level APIs, and perform initial testing on the driver, was write a "mirror" drive. The user-mode code pointed to a folder on disk, the driver made a virtual disk drive, and all reads and writes in the virtual disk drive went to the mirror folder.

On Windows, you can implement something like that using Dokany, Dokan, or Winfsp. On linux, there's the Fuse API. On Mac, there's MacFUSE.

Even if you don't do a "mirror" drive, understanding the callbacks that libraries like Dokany, Dokan, Winfsp, and Fuse do helps you understand how IO happens in the driver. Many IO methods provided in popular languages provide abstractions above what the OS does. (For example, the Windows kernel has no concept of the "Stream" that's in your C# program. The "Stream"'s Position property is purely a construct within the .Net framework.)

https://dokan-dev.github.io/

https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany

https://osxfuse.github.io/

Another place to start is the OS's documentation itself. For example, you can start with Window's CreateFileA function. This typically is what gets called "under the hood" in most programming languages when you open or create a file: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/...

"FUSE-T is a kext-less implementation of FUSE for macOS that uses NFS v4 local server instead of a kernel extension. The main motivation for this project is to replace macfuse (https://osxfuse.github.io/) that implements its own kext to make fuse work. With each version of macOS it's getting harder and harder to load kernel extensions. Apple strongly discourages it and, for this reason, software distributions that include macfuse are very difficult to install. Additionally, the macfuse kext is unstable, may cause frequent system crashes and kernel lock-ups. Given those limitations many software publishers are unable to use macfuse anymore. FUSE-T doesn't make use of kernel extension, it implements its own userspace server that converts between FUSE protocol and NFS calls and let macOS mount NFS volume instead of a kernel filesystem."

MacFuse (ntfs-3g) and a Foolproof way of getting it working via Homebrew.

For users who prefer using Homebrew, installing ws is as simple as running the following command:

Install Homebrew if you haven't already (visit https://brew.sh/ for instructions)

This assumes that homebrew and the xcode-tools are installed. First line will install dependencies to install and build python versions. Second line will install pyenv itself. Third line is optional and will append a pyenv load before running brew in order to avoid a false positive warning when running brew doctor and to avoid errors in case you are developing brew python packages. Note that it is being placed in .zshrc, your mac should already have zsh enabled by default unless it's an older machine, in which case you should probably append it to .bash_profile.

Because I use homebrew it is rather confusing as to where to configure gpg, the gpg-agent, and pinentry. Lots of the docmentation is for Linux and to make matters worse I am on Mac OS.

Homebrew has a healthy amount of contributors. Some people leave as priorities change but others join.

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew#who-we-are

You can install Homebrew from official website or Just enter below command to install.

Since OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Ruby is bundled alongside the operating system and the ability to install gems as the operating system came with such. This is Ruby 2.6.10 that is bundled with macOS 11 Big Sur. With Homebrew, The built-in Ruby and its dependencies (especially libyaml) can be updated with this command:

If you do decide to go the the brew way, you will need to install homebrew and follow the instructions in your terminal.

On Mac: With Homebrew: