MacFUSE Release Opens Up File Systems on Mac OS X

Macintosh developers gained a new Mac OS X software programming tool with the release of MacFUSE, an open-source Mac version of the FUSE file system module for Linux.

Amit Singh, engineering manager of the Macintosh Group at Google and author of "Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach," developed MacFUSE and released it at the recent Macworld Expo in San Francisco early in January 2007.

MacFUSE, Singh said, makes it easy for even casual programmers to write their own file systems, which they can build into Mac OS X user programs. With MacFUSE, users will be able to treat remote computer drives and even Web-based services as mountable drives on a local computer, he said.

FUSE, which stands for "Filesystem in Userspace," is an open-source software module that operates at the kernel level of Unix-based operating systems. It has also become officially part of Linux.

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