macFUSE and autofs

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Created Sep ’23

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I'm trying to use autofs to mount some macFUSE filesystems. However, autofs requires custom filesystems to provide /sbin/mount_* and this directory is not writable nor modifiable via synthentic.conf

Using a launch agent or daemon is not desirable as there is a non-blocking delay before the filesystem gets mounted which causes a race condition.

Is there any other option to let diskarbitrationd or autofs to automatically mount a macFUSE filesystem?

Answered by Kentzo in 789579022

I since found that /Library/Filesystems is user-writable (but requires root). In order to expose mount_<filesystem> to autofs, the following directory can be added:

/Library/Filesystems/<filesystem>.fs
└── Contents
    └── Resources
        └── mount_<filesystem>

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Kentzo OP

Jun ’24

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I since found that /Library/Filesystems is user-writable (but requires root). In order to expose mount_<filesystem> to autofs, the following directory can be added:

/Library/Filesystems/<filesystem>.fs
└── Contents
    └── Resources
        └── mount_<filesystem>

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