To install it, download and open the MacFUSE Core package available on the web site. MacFUSE requires Mac OS 10.4 Tiger or higher. Incidentally, Amit Singh is also the author of one of the most comprehensive books on OS X internals ever written. MacFUSE was developed by Amit Singh, Manager of Macintosh Engineering at Google, and is available on the MacFUSE website hosted by Google Code. This allows developers to build file system definitions that will work on any platform as long as they meet the FUSE specifications. This allows users to compile and use many popular FUSE file systems that have been developed on other platforms in addition to new ones built specifically for Mac OS X. It attempts to be compliant with the original FUSE mechanism originated on Linux. The FUSE (File System in Userspace) module provides a bridge to the actual kernel. This means that the implemented file system code can be created and run by non-privileged users without the need to write kernel code. MacFuse makes it possible to implement a fully functional file system in a “user-space” program on Mac OS X. For example, the procfs under UNIX provides information about processes in a directory-like structure. Finally, there are “virtual” file systems which provide an access method for data. File systems may also simply act as clients for a network protocol, allowing access to files on a server (e.g. This includes HFS+ (Hierarchical File System), the preferred file system of Mac OS X, in addition to NTFS (NT File System) and FAT32 (File Allocation Table). Many popular file systems provide a method of access by maintaining the physical location of the files. A file system is a method for storing and organizing computer files to facilitate finding and accessing them.
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