MacOS support

[marcoa6]

Creating entry to track requests for MacOS support

[marcoa6]

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[macos-fuse-t]

brew tap macos-fuse-t/homebrew-cask
brew install fuse-t

then replace github.com/jacobsa/fuse with github.com/macos-fuse-t/jacobsa-fuse/fuse in go.mod file and you're good to go

[matteomedioli]

Hi @macos-fuse-t , thanks for your work!
About this topic, I tried to replace this

gcsfuse/go.mod

Line 13 in 7dc5c7f

github.com/jacobsa/fuse v0.0.0-20230810134708-ab21db1af836

with
github.com/macos-fuse-t/jacobsa-fuse/fuse v0.0.0-20230810134708-ab21db1af836`
but of course the version is not the right one.

I tried also
github.com/macos-fuse-t/jacobsa-fuse/fuse v1.0.28

but I get:
go: github.com/macos-fuse-t/jacobsa-fuse/[email protected]: invalid version: unknown revision ab21db1af836
or
go: github.com/macos-fuse-t/jacobsa-fuse/[email protected]: invalid version

[macos-fuse-t]

replace github.com/macos-fuse-t/jacobsa-fuse/fuse => github.com/macos-fuse-t/jacobsa-fuse master

Keep in mind I don't have any google cloud accounts and never tested it

[xsulta]

Jojs

[luckman212]

FileProvider would be required. Seems like a long chasm to cross. I would not hold your breath. Unless the GDrive team has some free engineer time they want to donate, since they (mostly) seem to have that working now.

[rsaim]

+1 for macos support

[siddharthab]

FileProvider would be required.

@luckman212 Can you elaborate on this comment? It seems like gcsfuse works fine on macOS if I build it myself, for example with:

version=v2.2.0; GOBIN="${PWD}" go install -ldflags="-X 'main.gcsfuseVersion=${version}'" "github.com/googlecloudplatform/gcsfuse/v2@${version}"

Are macOS users missing out on something?

[luckman212]

@siddharthab I could be misinformed. Have not tested in a long time, so I apologize if that's the case. I admit I'm hazy on the upcoming changes in macOS Sequoia, which apparently will bring a native user-mode Filesystem API that may obviate the need for kernel extensions. For now, I assumed that installing MacFUSE was still a bit of a slog due to the kext requirement.

[siddharthab]

Oh yes, we still need macfuse. But the install for macfuse is not that hard. You may need to restart your computer to lower the security setting, but other than that, the install is relatively smooth. Once macfuse is installed, gcsfuse works quite well.

[pascalwhoop]

Could this be mounted inside of a docker container maybe? I.e. mount inside of a docker container which again mounts a host dir? Just spitballing here to get a quick workaround until this is supported properly

[Tulsishah]

Hey @pascalwhoop ,

Currently, we don't support GCSFuse on MacOS as well as on docker. If you want to use GCSFuse with containers, then we suggest using the Google supported GKE Cloud Storage FUSE CSI driver.

[pascalwhoop]

@Tulsishah the idea was that we can use docker (which is linux) to mount GCS into a host's directory.

So

1. docker run -v $USER/mountpoint:/mnt/gcs ...
2. gcsfuse mount to /mnt/gcs inside of container

That way, the container "mounts" GCS into the host so we can then navigate the FS from macOS

[antonyharfield]

@Tulsishah the idea was that we can use docker (which is linux) to mount GCS into a host's directory.

@pascalwhoop I've been trying to get this working but without any success (I can see the files are mounted inside the container but I don't get any files in the host's directory). I've tried:

a) same folder docker run -v ./gcs:/gcs and then gcsfuse ... bucket /gcs in the container
b) parent folder docker run -v ./gcs:/gcs and then gcsfuse ... bucket /gcs/x in the container

Neither worked for me. Did you get it working?

[longtou-2024]

@antonyharfield
mount bucket as subdirectory of volume
eg) docker run -v ./gcs:/gcs and then gcsfuse ... bucket /gcs/mount