Macfuse Alternatives

macfuse reviews and mentions

• KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Oct 2025

  SSH File sync applications are reliable...

  Android: "Transfer Files To Computer, PC" ( Michal Bukáček includes GPL git URI)

  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.bukacek.fil...

  iPhone: PhotoSync is free to transfer movies and low-resolution images

  https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photosync-transfer-photos/id41...

  MacOS:

  https://github.com/macfuse/macfuse/releases

  Windows 11: sshfs is slow, but allows user account constrained access to remote shares

  winget install -h -e --id "WinFsp.WinFsp"

  winget install -h -e --id "SSHFS-Win.SSHFS-Win"

  https://github.com/winfsp/sshfs-win

  Windows 11 system tray sshfs link manager:

  https://github.com/evsar3/sshfs-win-manager

  If your home router is dynamic DNS only, the ISP will usually still support ports >1000:

  https://www.noip.com/

  Or DIY your own DNS solution with cloud-flare:

  https://linuxconfig.org/automate-dynamic-ip-updates-for-your...

  Also tried KDE connect a few years back, but didn't like the idea of giving a buggy phone access to shoulder-surf root accounts. Transferring stuff out of a VM with a local samba instance also works, but samba should also be containerized.

  Best regards, =3

• How to check if your Apple Silicon Mac is booting securely
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Aug 2025

  Per the MacFUSE documentation…

  > macFUSE 5.0 supports multiple APIs for mounting file systems.

  > By default, macFUSE uses the VFS API to mount file systems. When specifying the mount-time option -o backend=fskit, macFUSE will use FSKit to mount the file system.

  https://github.com/macfuse/macfuse/wiki/FUSE-Backends

• FSKit: Implement a file system that runs in user space
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Mar 2025

  Maybe not. The macFUSE issue suggests that networked file systems can be supported but some plumbing is missing.

  https://github.com/macfuse/macfuse/issues/1025#issuecomment-...

• File systems can change in Sequoia with FSKit
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jul 2024

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

• why is my mac able to read the left sd card but not the right?
  1 project | /r/mac | 11 Dec 2023

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

• Please someone save me from file sharing hell to windows
  2 projects | /r/MacOS | 9 Dec 2023

  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.

• Spacedrive – an open source cross-platform file explorer
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2023

  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/

• macOS Sonoma is available today
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2023
• How do I fix this?
  1 project | /r/VeraCrypt | 2 Jul 2023

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

• Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning about low level disk/file IO?
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 May 2023

  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/...

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