“regular” sync downloads contents ahead of time, this is not the case with file providers. You give the file provider framework lists of directories, help it monitor changes, provide item info and then it will in turn issue callbacks into your extension to initiate downloads to a temporary location.ġ. Whereas FUSE is a really low level API exported into a safer user-space process, this is a little higher level. Provides data directly to spotlight indexes, etc. The whole macOS File Provider project is an off-shoot of the iCloud drive and iOS file provider projects, but with one key component they’ve added called the replicated extension that has an apple-blessed extension to APFS called “FPFS” (presumably file provider FS) that can intercept read/writes/etc to these on-disk placeholder files and download content (and thumbnails!) on demand. It’s a pretty cool framework, but pretty new (and a little raw).īox/Google/Dropbox/Microsoft will all eventually be using it, but the rollout has been slow. File Provider apps are userspace extensions that work with with placeholder files and on-demand hydration of remote files by the system via APFS. It’s a pretty big departure from the macFUSE style interfaces we've been using for years now. It’s basically a technology that enables something like Dropbox Smart Sync (project infinite) built directly into macOS fully managed by APFS. The replacement for apps like Google & Box Drive (and everyone else) is their new File Provider framework ( ), which they quietly launched but didn’t publicize at all. Just keeping it a little quiet right now since it’s not 100% done.
This is the primary reason these Google/Box/etc aren’t shipping M1 versions of their software.īut that’s okay, they’ve got something better they’re working on.
This is a terrible and unfriendly model for users (by design). On M1 machines any third party kernel extension requires a reboot into recovery mode, lowering the security settings, and then finishing the install. Third party kernel extensions on macOS are on the way out.
I run ExpanDrive (We use a derivative of macFUSE ( ) on macOS. It's the future of native cloud storage on macOS. Hey all! This is something we've been working on for a while now.
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