Friday, January 26, 2007
The Google Code MacFuse project has released a new version, along with an sshfs GUI (the main thing being a ‘recent servers’ list. The other release is Spotlight filesystem.
How does this work? Well, the simplest way is to run their SpotlightFS application, which creates the mountpoint, and then you create a directory in that mountpoint for doing a specific search. Their example:
$ mkdir /Volumes/SpotlightFS/Hasselhoff
$ ls -lrt /Volumes/SpotlightFS/Hasselhoff
[… output omitted to avoid embarrassment …]
Basically, it creates a Mac “smart folder”, with the results from Spotlight, instead of just the filesystem.
Also, if you’re big on python, you can try out this blog post on GmailFS for Mac (again, using FUSE).
