From 1ef881b94566c6c1ef397c30d4e39c4f9f307b3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: davidsarah <>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 20:59:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] say that OSXFUSE doesn't work; deemphasize Tuxera fork

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 ## sshfs on Mac OS X
 
-There are currently three major forks of the deceased MacFUSE: [Fuse4X](http://fuse4x.org/), [OSXFUSE](http://osxfuse.github.com/), and [Tuxera](https://github.com/tuxera/macfuse). Fuse4X has the advantage of compatibility with the [upstream FUSE project](http://fuse.sourceforge.net/), meaning that existing FUSE filesystems (such as sshfs) do not require patching in order to work. Fuse4X ([v0.8.14](https://github.com/downloads/fuse4x/fuse4x/Fuse4X-0.8.14.pkg)) along with sshfs ([v2.3.0](https://github.com/fuse4x/sshfs/zipball/master)) have been tested and confirmed to work on Lion (Mac OS X 10.7) - results for older versions of OS X would be appreciated.
+There are currently two major forks of the deceased MacFUSE: [Fuse4X](http://fuse4x.org/) and [OSXFUSE](http://osxfuse.github.com/). (There was also a [Tuxera](https://github.com/tuxera/macfuse) fork, but that is not maintained and did not work with Tahoe-LAFS.)
 
-The Tuxera fork (v2.2.1) does not work with Tahoe-LAFS, possibly due to issue (2) in [this post](http://osdir.com/ml/macfuse/2011-08/msg00052.html). OSXFUSE has not been tested.
+Fuse4X has the advantage of compatibility with the [upstream FUSE project](http://fuse.sourceforge.net/), meaning that existing FUSE filesystems (such as sshfs) do not require patching in order to work. Fuse4X ([v0.8.14](https://github.com/downloads/fuse4x/fuse4x/Fuse4X-0.8.14.pkg)) along with sshfs ([v2.3.0](https://github.com/fuse4x/sshfs/zipball/master)) have been tested and confirmed to work on Lion (Mac OS X 10.7). Results for older versions of OS X would be appreciated.
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+OSXFUSE seems to work less well -- tarcieri on IRC reported: "last time I tried to use OSXFUSE with Tahoe+sshfs it just wigged out and crashed and unmounted the volume whenever I tried to read a file."
 
 If for legacy support reasons you wish to use MacFUSE - development of which stalled at version 2.0.3 - you will need to use the patched sshfs included with the download. Version 2.0.3 *does* work on Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.8). On Snow Leopard and Lion it might work if you use a 32-bit kernel (but this has not been tested).