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by tambourine_man 1025 days ago
MacFUSE always seems unbearably slow to me. Specially in the Finder. Has it improved?

FUSE-T seems more future proof (no kext) and probably less likely to completely hang your Mac, but could potentially be even slower since it’s another abstraction layer in between.

It’s odd that there aren’t any great open source SFTP solutions for the Mac. CyberDuck and FileZilla are barely passable.
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lxgr 1025 days ago
> less likely to completely hang your Mac

I think what hangs the Mac isn't the remote file system as such, but rather some local app or (more likely) low-level OS service assuming that all mounted filesystems are local (or at least low-latency and highly available).

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tambourine_man 1024 days ago
That too, but I remember having straight kernel panics. Granted, that was more than a decade ago.
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