pk-mount / FUSE unsupported on MacOS

[tbrtje]

Hi there,
Apparently there is no support for MacFUSE 4 and later. If it is installed I get the error message
FUSE not available. This seems to be due to bazil.org/fuse lack of support for it.
Unfortunately this isn't just an issue for M1 based systems, as described here #1327 , but an issue for all up to date MacOS Systems.

Unfortunately I have no clue how to implement a fix, but I hope someone with the knowledge and spare time can :)
Best Regards
Thies

[tgulacsi]

We're updating bazil.org/fuse to the latest that has support for MacOS:

482a7f0

Unfortunately that does nothing with the OS that has desupported MacFUSE.

rclone/rclone#4393 uses a C-based alternative,

restic/restic#485 uses WebDAV.

I do have worked on WebDAV for perkeep some time ago, may be appropriate to resurrect that

[tbrtje]

Unfortunately that does nothing with the OS that has desupported MacFUSE.

MacFUSE is available for Big Sur and Monterey, but the license was changed with version 4.0
Other tools do work with the current version of MacFUSE, so what do you mean exactly?

[tgulacsi]

See bazil/fuse#224 and https://colatkinson.site/macos/fuse/2019/09/29/osxfuse/
OSXFUSE is no longer open source, you have to pay for it.
If you will to do so, then pk-mount may work for you.
If not, we have to find another way. That's why I suggested WebDAV: as far as I see, it is supported out of the box
with Windows and MacOS.
Can you confirm that WebDAV would suffice you on MacOS?

[tgulacsi]

PTAL github.com/tgulacsi/perkeep@webdav - it implements WebDAV at /dav/ path.

[GwynethLlewelyn]

These days, it should be possible to use @anacrolix's own fork of bazil/fuse, which is a drop-in replacement (no code changes necessary) which provides the exact same functionality — plus working macFUSE 4+ support.

You can get it from here: https://github.com/anacrolix/fuse

[bradfitz]

@GwynethLlewelyn, thanks for the pointer. (I also forgot about https://www.fuse-t.org/)

I recently removed all our macOS-based FUSE support in afb0716 but it should be easy to restore it and switch to https://github.com/anacrolix/fuse.

[anacrolix]

@bradfitz migrating away from MacFUSE seems quite common, is it mainly a licensing/open source issue?

[bradfitz]

@anacrolix, seems like that's half of it. The other half is what https://www.fuse-t.org/ says:

With each version of macOS it's getting harder and harder to load kernel extensions. Apple strongly discourages it and, for this reason, software distributions that include macfuse are very difficult to install.

I really like the NFSv4 server approach. Ideally that NFSv4 server would be written in Go (or at least not C) and open source and in the same process, though.

[mennis]

Upspin is using a fork of the basil/fuse that I think Dave Presotto has an interest in keeping alive. I don't know enough to speak to merits vs. any other fork.