[Coco] Ann: FUSE Support for Toolshed

[Joel Ewy]

Boisy Pitre wrote:
> Linux and Mac users will be happy to learn that FUSE support is now  
> part of the ToolShed project.  FUSE is a user-land file system  
> package that allows programmers to easily add a file system on one of  
> the supported operating system.  ...
>
> The big advantage here is that you can use native tools like Mac OS  
> X's Finder and Linux's Nautlius File Browser to browse both OS-9 and  
> Disk BASIC disk images.  Now with FUSE support available, you can  
> simply mount a disk image as if it were a block device and start  
> copying files to/from the disk image, view and edit files, create  
> directories (in the case of OS-9), etc.
> ...
> --
> Boisy G. Pitre
> Email: boisy at boisypitre.com
> Web: http://www.boisypitre.com/
> Phone: 337-781-3570
>   
This looks very cool, Boisy.  So adding support for a file system takes
place in user-land?  But does this facility require kernel support?  If
so, what kernels are required?  I'd like to be able to do more of my
CoCo stuff more seamlessly in Linux, and this may be the way to go.

JCE