Clarification

The MacFusion home page offers a primary introduction.

Distinctions

Apple Mac OS and Finder

Questions relating to Mac OS and Finder should be addressed to Apple. Hot topics include:

• .DS_Store files
• Mac OS X 10.4: How to prevent .DS_Store file creation over network connections
• dot underscore files
• ._

MacFUSE, MacFusion and other applications

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|-- FUSE for Linux
|-- SSHFS
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|-- MacFUSE kernel module
|-- SSHFS binary for MacFUSE
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   |-- MacFusion and plug-ins
       |-- CurlFtpFS (FTP)
       |-- EncFS
       |-- SSHFS (SSH/SFTP)
       |-- Xgrid FUSE (not yet implemented)
       |-- other plug-ins

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   |-- gDisk
   |-- iTunesFS
   |-- NTFS-3G for Mac OS X 
          and MacFUSE Tools
   |-- Secure Remote Disk
   |-- Xgrid FUSE
   |-- other applications

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|||||| sshfs for Darwin (Mac OS X)

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(That's a fairly broad snapshot, sketched in May 2007; please, don't expect the representation above to be updated.)

MacFUSE and MacFusion are separate but closely related projects.

MacFUSE is the foundation upon which MacFusion runs.

MacFusion is a plug-in-based graphical user interface (GUI) for MacFUSE.

Bundled within the FTPFS.plugin plug-in to MacFusion is a curlftpfs-static binary for connections to FTP servers.

Bundled within the SSHFS.plugin plug-in to MacFusion is an sshfs-static binary for connections to SSH/SFTP servers.

sshfs.app may appear in the MacFUSE downloads area but please note: whilst the sshfs-static binary within the bundle is supported, the sshfs.app (application bundle) in its entirety is an unsuppported demo.

Issues that relate to the sshfs-static binary -- not to MacFusion -- can be found/reported in the MacFUSE issues area.

(Issues that relate to the sshfs.app demo should never be reported.)

Explanations

Non-technical users will probably be baffled by those distinctions.

User-friendly explanations from MacFusion project members will be welcomed!