It is used as a software building block by dozens of. As a user, installing the macFUSE software package will let you use any third-party FUSE file system. macFUSE allows you to extend macOS's native file handling capabilities via third-party file systems.
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Note: FUSE for macOS (or macfuse) is no longer bundled with IBM Spectrum Archive SDE. MacFUSE allows you to extend Mac OS Xs native file handling capabilities via 3rd-party file systems. FUSE extends macOS by adding support for user space file systems. I would assume that the programs you list, trevorit and cryptomator use already existing FUSE packages though, like ext4fuse or whatever the package is called. Follow the Installer utility instructions. Whether file system support layers on top of it are trustworthy is a case by case basis, but as a result of the FUSE model, if they are not, their harm is at the very least limited to the file system they add support for (unless they find a way to exploit the macFUSE kext itself). Anything that runs in kernel space can bring down the whole system if it’s buggy or potentially allow arbitrary code execution with kernel privileges if exploitable.īut again, I do trust macFUSE itself. MacFUSE itself is also a kernel extension and while I trust macFUSE itself, a kernel extension will increase the attack surface and the system crash likelihood - that’s basically inevitable. A file system support package would still be able to snoop on the files it is responsible for, but it wouldn’t be able to snoop on files from other file systems. As a user, installing the OSXFUSE software package will let you use any third-party file system written atop OSXFUSE or MacFUSE, if you choose to install the MacFUSE compatibility layer. It is a successor to MacFUSE, which is no longer being maintained. MacFUSE itself is still open source, and the principle behind FUSE is to have file system support in user space which improves security in the sense that the file system support won’t have kernel access. OSXFUSE allows you to extend OS X's native file-handling capabilities via third-party file systems.
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