Odds and Ends: FUSE comes to Mac OS X; Knowledge Base updates

FUSE comes to Mac OS X Taking advantage of his company's policy that encourages employees to spend 20% of their time working on personal projects, Google employee Amit Singh has developed and released MacFUSE, a Mac OS X version of the popular FUSE (File System in User Space) mechanism, which was created for Linux and subsequently ported to FreeBSD.

"FUSE makes it possible to implement a very functional file system in a normal program rather than requiring a complex addition to the operating system. More importantly, the FUSE API is very easy to program for. The large number of interesting and/or useful FUSE file systems out there is a testament to this. An often-cited example of such a useful file system is sshfs, which until now was not available on Mac OS X."

Knowledge Base updates

• #107996 Reconstructing cyrus mailboxes in Mac OS X Server 10.3, 10.4
• #304058 About white MacBooks' palmrest area

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