Plethora of New User Space Filesystems For Mac OS X 225
DaringDan writes "As part of the recent MacFUSE 2.0 release Amit Singh has added support for an insane number of filesystems on the Mac. This video from Google and this blog post pretty much explain everything in detail but to sum-up Singh has written a new filesystem called AncientFS which lets you mount a ton of UNIX file formats starting from the very first version of UNIX. Even more interesting is that they have also taken Linux kernel implementations of filesystems like ufs, sysv-fs, minix-fs and made them work in user-space on the Mac, which means its now possible to read disks from OSes like FreeBSD, Solaris and NeXT on OS X. ext2/ext3 don't seem to be on the list but apparently the source for everything is provided, so hopefully some enterprising soul can apply the same techniques to ext2. One of their demos even has the old UNIX kernel compiled directly on the Mac through the original PDP C compiler by somehow executing the PDP binaries on OS X!"
Re:Sounds great. (Score:2, Funny)
But really, all I want for christmas is NTFS write support.
Santa Jobs says you've been naughty. COAL filesystem support for you this year!
Re:Sounds great. (Score:3, Funny)
At least COAL won't murder your wife
Re:Because... (Score:5, Funny)
Riiiiiight... Because a Linux-heavy audience would never even consider violating the sanctity of those spoooooky "system files" of which you speak...
Re:cool, now lets make in run on linux (Score:4, Funny)
You're supposed to flaimebait anonymously.
A Plethora? (Score:5, Funny)
El Guapo: Many new user space filesystems?
Jefe: Oh yes, many!
El Guapo: Would you say I have a plethora of new user space filesystems?
Jefe: A what?
El Guapo: A *plethora*.
Jefe: Oh yes, you have a plethora.
El Guapo: Jefe, what is a plethora?
Jefe: Why, El Guapo?
El Guapo: Well, you told me I have a plethora. And I just would like to know if you know what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has *no idea* what it means to have a plethora.
Jefe: Forgive me, El Guapo. I know that I, Jefe, do not have your superior intellect and education. But could it be that once again, you are angry at something else, and are looking to take it out on me?
Re:News? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:News? (Score:5, Funny)
Macs are gay.
Yeah. My macs are gay. But I talked to them, I explained I am hetero, and they never molested me - they never did anything to hurt my feelings. I am tolerant, but not interested in gay relationships. My computers understood that.
Not that I would ever be interested in having sex with a computer anyway...
Roberto
Re:News? (Score:5, Funny)
Not that I would ever be interested in having sex with a computer anyway...
Well, SOMEBODY'S in the minority on Slashdot...