This one is for the real Mac geeks out there. Amit Singh, author or Mac OS X Internals: A Systems A roach, is widely recognized as an %26uuml er Mac-geek and po ibly the person outside of A le that knows the most about Mac OS X. He is now employed by Google as their Mac Engineering Manager. As he just a ounced on the Official Google Mac Blog, he used part of his "20 percent time" to implement the "FUSE (File System in User ace) mechanism" for OS X (it was originally developed for Linux). He explai , "FUSE makes it po ible to implement a very functional file system in a normal program rather than requiring a complex addition to the operating system." He links to the FUSE project wiki listing of a licatio . While this won't have an immediate impact on most of us users, it has a lot of potential. As pointed out on MacSlash this may eventually bring full read/write su ort for Windows NTFS formatted disks to OS X (Mac OS X can read, but not write to, NTFS disks) or even "filesystems which run over h and gmail."[Via the Official Google Mac Blog]
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