Mac fuse and software stripe renders system unsable

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install OSX with software raid in stripe (not sure if any software raid
will do)
2. Install macfuse and use sshfs
3. Stuff crashes randomly, firefox, finder, itunes, dmesg prints errors
about it not being able retrieve the kernel log/etc.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
A stable system :D

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
OSX 10.4.10 and latest macfuse/sshfs as of friday

Please provide any additional information below.
Lots of stuff like "Sep 22 12:21:12 minerva crashdump[725]: firefox-bin
crashed" in the logs.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by krypticm...@gmail.com on 23 Sep 2007 at 1:35

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Besides circumstantial evidence (that you just happened to install MacFUSE and 
sshfs when you had your reported 
issues), do you have any other correlation that this has anything to do with 
MacFUSE?

You can uninstall MacFUSE by running the following command in the Terminal:

sudo /System/Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/uninstall-macfuse-core.sh

I suggest you do that and see if stuff still crashes randomly.

Original comment by si...@gmail.com on 23 Sep 2007 at 3:20

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Hey singh,
Dont get me wrong, I used macfuse for a long long time! and yes, I just rm-ed 
the
kext dir from /System/Library/Filesystems, rebooted and it so far runs smooth 
(for
over 24 hours). I went through the logs yestarday, but couldnt find anything 
useful
besides random crashlogs of stuff. The only difference between my current 
system and
the old one in which macfuse worked is that I installed osx with software 
striping,
it is a fresh install. macfuse was probably the second thing I installed after 
doing
all the updates.
Let me know if you have an idea how to debug this beast, because I'd gladly do 
the
troubleshooting.

Regards,
Me :)

Original comment by krypticm...@gmail.com on 23 Sep 2007 at 8:40

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krypticmind: Don't get me wrong about getting you wrong (I'm not). I asked you 
about circumstantial 
evidence because I've had reports of somebody's firmware misbehaving after they 
installed MacFUSE. I don't 
know what to tell you to debug here because MacFUSE should have nothing to do 
with the issue you're 
describing. If it indeed has something to do with it, I need more context.

Are you saying that you deleted the MacFUSE kernel extension and your symptoms 
go away--and you still 
have software striping and deleting the kext is the only change you made to 
"make things work smoothly"? If 
so, well, just reinstall MacFUSE and lets see if your symptoms reappear.

When you say "install MacFUSE"--what exactly do you mean? The dmg available 
from this web site? MacPorts? 
Fink? Something else? Did you install any other MacFUSE file systems besides 
sshfs?

Original comment by si...@gmail.com on 23 Sep 2007 at 9:05

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If you have more information, let us continue this discussion on the 
macfuse-devel forum. On the face of it, it's 
unlikely this has anything to do with MacFUSE Core itself, but if it does, 
we'll revisit it.

Original comment by si...@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2007 at 6:40

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