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Graham Perrin

GmailFS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Google can and has suspended accounts for the sort of excess activity GmailFS generates. Consequently GmailFS should not be considered reliable for backup purposes. Furthermore, the "Program Policies" prohibit the user to "Reformat or frame any portion of the web pages that are part of the Gmail Service" which is arguably violated by use of GmailFS, which, after all, "reformats" documents transferred via HTTP ("web pages") into data accessible via FUSE.
Graham Perrin

FAQ - macfuse - Google Code - Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers) - 0 views

  • I mounted a MacFUSE volume but I don't see a volume icon on the Desktop
  • I mounted a MacFUSE volume but I don't see a volume icon in the Finder's sidebar
  • sshfs isn't meant to replace things such as NFS, AFP, and SMB
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  • a substitute when you don't have any remote file sharing access to a computer, but you do have sftp access
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      A rich experience, with which users of Apple Finder and Mac OS X are accustomed, can not be guaranteed within the limitations of a protocol such as FTP.
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      Hint: Finder does very much more than simply transfer files. Much of the Finder experience, which users (naturally) take for granted, is thanks to extensive use of extended attributes and metadata.
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      Users of FTP, SFTP and SHH services: please, pay attention! The best marriage of Apple Finder and Mac OS X to a remote file system is: Apple Filing Protocol (AFP).
  • MacFUSE allows access to a volume only to the user who mounted the volume. All other users, including the superuser is denied access
  • nontrivial user-space file systems can still be complex, and their performance/behavior can depend upon numerous factors besides MacFUSE itself
  • When in doubt, feel free to post your questions on the macfuse group
  • MacFUSE itself isn't a distributed remote file system
Graham Perrin

MacFUSE | Google Groups - 0 views

  • Got an NTFS (or NTFS-3G) Question?
Graham Perrin

Michael Gorbach's response to 'Can't write to server folder' - 0 views

  • I think it _can_ be solved   at the MacFUSE level using a transparent "stacking" FUSE filesystem   that will cache appledobule files _locally_
  • It would be a very significant contribution to the Mac and FUSE   communities if such a thing were built, as then all network FUSE   filesystems like S3, FTP and SSH would see functionality and   performance gains
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    Highlights from Michael's discussion.
Graham Perrin

FUSE stackable FS module in objc - 0 views

  • Would it be possible to implement a "stacking" filesystem using MacFuse.framework or the FUSE python bindings?
  • you'll have to do the work of talking to the low-level C interface in libfuse
  • MacFUSE.framework is a shim atop the high-level FUSE API
Graham Perrin

Noob help with creating a file system - MacFUSE | Google Groups - 0 views

  • very picky that your file system is returning the proper errors
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      Finder expects errors that are proper.
  • accesses to files in a directory when there was no contentsOfDirectoryAtPath: ca
  • contentsOfDirectoryAtPath: will be called frequently
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  • think beyond the Finder
  • Finder, other applications, and even parts of the OS that would would not expect may be requesting directory contents or file attributes on your file system at any time. They will even do this for files and directories that don't exist
  • Working well with the Finder is not an easy task
  • behaving as much like a "standard" file system as possible
Graham Perrin

Advanced NTFS-3G Features - 0 views

  • the NTFS-3G project globally aims at providing a stable NTFS driver for several operating systems
  • the advanced branch specifically aims at developing, maturing, and releasing features to get user feedback
  • advanced releases are designed as add-ons to the latest stable release
Graham Perrin

NTFS-3G: Extended Attributes - 0 views

  • information which cannot be stored in the file
  • Extended attributes are properties
  • optionally set to files or directories
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  • with variations
  • Windows, Linux, Solaris, MacOSX
  • On Linux, specifically, four categories of extended attributes have been defined
  • user : to record properties defined by applications
  • names of the extended attributes must be prefixed
  • Examples of extended attribute names
  • stable ntfs-3g supports the user name space
  • some Linux distributions do not support the extended attribute interface
  • commands for getting or setting the extended attributes are system dependent
  • extended attributes in user name space are stored on NTFS as alternative data streams
  • The following sections describe how to access a few NTFS internal data as extended attributes
  • NTFS Attributes
  • miscellaneous flags associated with a file or directory
  • Only eight flags can be changed
  • NTFS use reparse data to define special actions before opening
  • reparse data of a file or directory is mapped to an extended attribute
  • translated into ownership, permissions and Posix ACLs parameters
  • NTFS ACLs are used to control access
  • NTFS ACL of a file or directory is mapped to an extended attribute
  • EFS is the methodology used in NTFS to deal with encrypted files
  • decryption information, the EFS Info, which contains the key, encrypted
  • decryption information is mapped to an extended attribute
  • encryption and compression are not compatible
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Graham Perrin

Change SSHFS behavior to WRONLY and copying - MacFUSE | Google Groups - 0 views

  • In SSHFS when copying a file, the file mode is RDWR
  • my server doesn't support that
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    I'll be interested in the answer to this question.
Graham Perrin

SSHFS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • SSHFS (SSH Filesystem)
  • allows access to a remote file system where files and directories are available via SFTP
  • Compatibility and limitations
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