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About a month ago, Google’s Amit Singh announced the availability of a port of the FUSE (Filesystems in USErspace) framework to Mac OS X. Amit’s the guy who wrote the book on OS X internals, and probably understands OS X better than anyone else outside of Apple. I’m not going to spend a lot of time talking about why FUSE is a great idea — just check out the videos linked to from the MacFuse project page and you’ll understand — but I do want to point out that SSHFS is really a pleasure to use. It allows you to treat remote files just like local files without any special server support! You do, of course, need SSH access to the machine in question, but this is usually the way I access remote machines anyhow. If you do need access to a machine where you don’t have an ssh account there’s also FTPFS and others. There are a ton of FUSE filesystems and it’s now become a pretty simple task to port them to OS X. In the easiest cases it’s just a recompile. Anyhow, big props to Amit Singh for doing a great service to the Mac community. Get MacFuse here.
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