Thursday, January 18th, 2007 at 8:09 PM
Amit Singh, author of the excellent book Mac OS X Internals, has published a Mac version of FUSE, a kernel extension that allows various data structures to be “remapped” as a local file system. Even internet-dependent sources like Flickr photo albums, RSS feeds, and remotely-connected SSH sessions can be represented as files in a folder. If you’ve never seen technology like this before, this video demo shows just how cool this stuff is. There’s already a FlickrFS extension that can be implemented with FUSE, so it shouldn’t be too much trouble to implement it on the Mac, making Flickr photo managing as easy as drag-and-drop. After backing up my current system (this is unsupported software), I’ll try installing MacFUSE and a handful of plugins.
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Hi!
I’ve tried to get Flickrfs to work with MacFUSE but failed at the end when trying to mount it. I think I am very close to the solution, but as I do not know anything about how Python works, I am in the dark at the moment.
I would appreciate if you could tell me if you succeed. My email is hgpuke (at) gmail (dot) com
Thanks,
Hans-Göran, Sweden