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>3rd party supporting a file system would be one of the last things on a list of all software I’d ever want a 3rd party writing instead of the OS maker.

Given how many people use FUSE, Paragon NTFS for Mac, and similar tools, you're hardly totally representative.

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Third party read-write NTFS drivers took FOREVER to become really robust. I remember hearing horror stories not infrequently up until maybe a decade or less ago.

> Given how many people use FUSE

What percentage of MacOS users even know what that is. I mean I am in the percent but I know it's sub 0.001

Well there’s at least two of us.

They don’t need to know it to use it. I’ve seen a fair number of commercial cloud drive products use it.

MacOS users' awareness of a mostly linux centric piece of tech is pretty damn irrelevant here. The point is that FUSE is a pretty mature piece of technology, and we know that it can be used productively without being that nightmare scenario you described. There is no reason why Apple's FSKit can't be equally successful.

> Given how many people use

How many people use software like this because they have no choice? I used Paragon NTFS, but the entire time, I thought it was ridiculous that MacOS can't read NTFS on its own.

Do many people use macFUSE? I thought ever since the license change it's really dropped off.

There's fuse-t, which uses a local network filesystem in the background, iirc.

Edit: but to be fair, that's mostly only relevant for unsupported network filesystems like sshfs...

They trust kernel extensions apparently, all of them.

Like 99% of the computer using world until less than a decade ago, when almost all drivers were kernel extensions and things like kexts were very much used?

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