
my main interest is finding something that performs better than mounted Windows file shares. So far I've had no trouble with the mounted shares, and I'm working on benchmarking VS mounted smb shares. Instead I followed the instructions to compile everything from source which were linked from the original post: I chose not to use the package installer since the site says it's purely a one off, I assume to get folks trying out FUSE. I'm thrilled to see that FUSE has been ported, ssh file systems are a blessing.

There's a lot of promise in MacFUSE, but I think I'll wait a couple generations before trying it again! The only extra step I took was to also remove the MacFUSE receipts from /Library -> Receipts.

I also checked the programs listed in the removal script against my MacBook Pro (which hasn't ever had MacFUSE installed), and found no overalp (so nothing listed there is used by anything else). I'm posting this hint mainly to say that I indeed tried the removal script posted there, and it seems to have worked well. After some rooting around on the MacFUSE site, I found these removal instructions on the Issues tab. Unfortunately, there's no uninstaller included with the disk image distribution. I also had two kernel panics when I tried to unmount a mounted file system, so I decided to remove MacFUSE for now. In particular, it seems not to interact well with Path Finder (sshfs connections don't show as mounted volumes, for instance, unless they're in /Volumes, but they will do so in the Finder). I tried it last weekend, and while I was generally thrilled with it (it's amazingly handy being able to work in remote folders as if they're local), I had some issues.
Unistall macfuse install#
Last week, we ran this hint about using MacFUSE to install sshfs, which lets you mount ssh-connected servers like regular folders in the Finder.
