Problems w/ MacFUSE & SSHFS

[Johannes Ruscheinski]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Dan Ports <dports at macports.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 04:13:56PM -0700, Johannes Ruscheinski wrote:
>> I just installed the macfuse and sshfs ports on a MacBook Pro running
>> a 64-bit kernel.
>
> MacFUSE doesn't support 64-bit kernels. The problem is that 64-bit
> filesystems need to be thread-safe, and MacFUSE isn't. As far as I can
> tell, there hasn't been much progress upstream on the issue, though I
> did see a thread from a couple days ago on the MacFUSE discussion forum
> that sounded encouraging.
>
> There are a couple supposed 64-bit MacFUSE modules floating around, but
> they appear to just bypass the thread-safety check, so would not
> actually be safe to use.

Thanks for the info!  Bummer!  I don't ever see myself going back to
32-bit environments unless I will start working on embedded systems
which seems unlikely at this point.   I wonder how hard it would be to
make MacFUSE thread safe.  I imagine it's written in C or C++?  I am
fairly experienced in both and might take a gander...

>
> Dan
>
> --
> Dan R. K. Ports              MIT CSAIL                http://drkp.net/
>



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