On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Dan Ports <[email protected]> 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/ > -- Johannes Obligatory current favourite quotes: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful". -- Seneca "I have more confidence in the methods of science, based on the amazing record of science and its ability over the centuries to answer unanswerable questions, than I do in the methods of faith (what are they?)." -- David J. Gross "Physics Nobel Laureate" "Atheism is a religion to the same extent that not collecting stamps is a hobby." -- seen on Slashdot.org _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
