Questions tagged [macfuse]
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GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM problem when working with terminal and MacFusion
I'm using MacFusion with OSXFuse(similar to MacFuse) to mount my server over SSH onto my office machine. When I cd into my rails work directory on the server, i can't see any git info in my zsh prompt. If i try a git pull origin, i get the following…

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Is it possible to programmatically change the volume icon on a mounted drive on Mac OS X?
I want to programmatically change the volume icon for a stacked file system implemented using OSXFUSE (formerly MacFUSE). The icon needs to reflect the state of a mounted file system.
The approach that I have been trying to get working is to map…

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File system encryption for IOS?
I know on Mac OS,we can use Macfuse for write a file system in user space,we can create a box encryption.
I don't know on IOS has a framework,library like FUSE,Macfuse that i can write my file system for encryption/decryption file (possible mount on…

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MacFUSE does not appear to be installed
After installing MacFUSE and opening system Preferences -> MacFuse
it looks like that it is not compatible with Mac lion and says:
MacFUSE does not appear to be installed
Any solution to that?

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macFuse requires Recovery mode on Mac OS 11+
Since Mac OS 11 Big Sur release Apple allows installation of kext drivers in the Recovery mode only.
It also prohibits installation of kext drivers from Apple store. Which I guess is the end of macFuse, at least for virtual/cloud file systems.
What…

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How to test whether application handles slow/flaky filesystems properly?
I want to ensure that my application doesn't have any UI freezes when working on files on slow filesystem (e.g. networked, CD/DVD or spun-down HDD).
I'm using Cocoa filesystem operations directly. I'm afraid it would be too much effort to mock or…

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How to handle exception when Directory.GetFiles() throws an exception when it finds a file name it does not "like"?
On a Vista machine with the valid path C:\Users\David, calling Directory.GetFiles(@"C:\Users\David") throws the following ArgumentException when run as the David user, who can view the contents of the directory just fine in Windows…

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Can Spotlight index a MacFUSE filesystem?
Spotlight indexes at the file level, so a file containing a complicated data structure may need to be split into a set of files for Spotlight to index it in a useful way.
Can you use MacFUSE to achieve this more dynamically?
Will Spotlight index a…

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How to use entry_timeout and attr_timeout in FUSE/OSXFUSE low-level API?
Is there any way to safely use non-zero timeouts in non-readonly filesystems? I cannot seem to find one. A couple of counter-examples:
Example One (non-zero negative entry timeout):
An application calls stat() and gets ENOENT;
calls create();
calls…

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OSXFUSE - what exactly does the "local" mount option mean?
I've implemented an OSXFUSE-based file system. It works fine on 10.8, but on Mavericks MS Word opens existing documents as blank (although I am, apparently, returning the correct data - I see the contents in the preview icon. Also, if I copy a file…

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MacFUSE: Keepalive?
Is there a way to configure MacFUSE to keep a mounted volume alive if the remote host is set to break the connection due to inactivity? If there is no direct way to configure this, would there be a way to write a script to accomplish this?

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Can a MacFUSE file system support "virtual" directories?
I'm toying around with MacFUSE, and it's pretty neat. (I'm using the Objective-C API.)
I'm currently trying to build a filesystem that allows files to be classified by tags. That is, I'd take a directory with a flat structure (and possibly lots of…

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I changed a file incorrectly in vi when trying to install ifuse on OSX and don't know how to get the original back
I'm very inexperienced, and was following directions here ---
Installing ifuse with Homebrew results in ERROR message
I believe I made some unintended changes when I was editing the file in
$ vi `brew formula ifuse`
without understanding what I was…

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Why is my mounted MacFUSE NTFS vol read-only?
I got the impression from the MacFUSE site that when you install it and connect an NTFS volume it will be writable. However, the volume I mounted is read only. Here is some of the output of mount...
The NTFS external USB drive I'm talking…

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How to build OSXFUSE.framework in Cocoa?
I already installed OSXFUSE from https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse but i don't know how to build OSXFUSE.framework to include it in the application. I also download the sample source from OSXFuse but it cannot build and show the error:
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