Why MacFUSE recommends a restart
I like to complain to friends about software that requires or recommends that I restart my computer after installation. I just ran across a well-written and informative explanation of why MacFUSE, a wonderful piece of software, makes such a recommendation. In short, it protects it against the edge case where a user is upgrading while they have a mounted FUSE drive.
I’m still not convinced that a restart should be recommended, however. Instead, I’d like it to prompt me to unmount my FUSE drives before installing, blocking installation until they are all unmounted. Unmounting a few drives for the duration of the installation seems a lot less intrusive than asking me to restart.
…of course, it’s easy for me to say that when I’m not the one coding it…
