I want OS X to "think" that a USB-attached drive is a network drive.
I could probably get this by writing a MacFUSE file system, based on the loopback file system. Has someone already done this with MacFUSE? Is there another way?
You're probably going to want to know why I want to do this. The only reason I have this drive is to provide a network share to Windows computers. Because the only way to prevent OS X from creating metadata files is to tell it not to create them on network drives, I need to convince OS X that this drive is a network drive. I don't want to physically attach this drive to a Windows machine, because the Windows machines get shut-down by their users (my family members).
I could probably get this by writing a MacFUSE file system, based on the loopback file system. Has someone already done this with MacFUSE? Is there another way?
You're probably going to want to know why I want to do this. The only reason I have this drive is to provide a network share to Windows computers. Because the only way to prevent OS X from creating metadata files is to tell it not to create them on network drives, I need to convince OS X that this drive is a network drive. I don't want to physically attach this drive to a Windows machine, because the Windows machines get shut-down by their users (my family members).