FUSE something that creates file systems.

Fuse-2.9.3

Introduction to Fuse

FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) is a simple interface for userspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the Linux kernel. Fuse also aims to provide a secure method for non privileged users to create and mount their own filesystem implementations.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.5 platform.

Package Information

• Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fuse/fuse-2.9.3.tar.gz
• Download MD5 sum: 33cae22ca50311446400daf8a6255c6a
• Download size: 564 KB
• Estimated disk space required: 9.5 MB
• Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/fuse

Kernel Configuration

Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel if necessary:

File systems  --->
  [*] FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) support

Installation of Fuse

 

Note

After the configure script has finished you will see a warning shown below. You can safely disregard this warning.

configure: WARNING:
******************************************************************
* Please install util-linux version 2.18 or later which supports *
* --fake and --no-canonicalize options in mount and umount       *
******************************************************************

Install Fuse by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static INIT_D_PATH=/tmp/init.d &&
make

If you have Doxygen-1.8.6 installed and wish to build the API documentation, issue doxygen doc/Doxyfile.

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

mv -v   /usr/lib/libfuse.so.* /lib &&
ln -sfv ../../lib/libfuse.so.2.9.3 /usr/lib/libfuse.so &&
rm -rf  /tmp/init.d &&

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/fuse-2.9.3 &&
install -v -m644    doc/{how-fuse-works,kernel.txt} \
                    /usr/share/doc/fuse-2.9.3

If you built the API documentation, install it as the root user by issuing the following commands:

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/fuse-2.9.3/api &&
install -v -m644    doc/html/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/fuse-2.9.3/api

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

INIT_D_PATH=/tmp/init.d: This parameter installs the bootscript into /tmp/init.d as a bootscript is not required.

mv -v /usr/lib/libfuse.so.* /lib: This moves the FUSE library to the root filesystem so that it is available early in the boot process in case /usr is mounted on a separate partition and ntfs-3g-2014.2.15 is built with a system-installed version of FUSE.

rm -rf /tmp/init.d: This removes the unneeded bootscript.

Configuring fuse

Config Files

Some options regarding mount policy can be set in the file /etc/fuse.conf. To install the file run the following command as the root user:

cat > /etc/fuse.conf << "EOF"
# Set the maximum number of FUSE mounts allowed to non-root users.
# The default is 1000.
#
#mount_max = 1000

# Allow non-root users to specify the 'allow_other' or 'allow_root'
# mount options.
#
#user_allow_other
EOF

Additional information about the meaning of the configuration options are found in the man page.

Contents

Installed Programs:fusermount, mount.fuse, and ulockmgr_server

Installed Libraries:libfuse.so and libulockmgr.so

Installed Directory:/usr/include/fuse

Short Descriptions

fusermount	is a set users ID root program to mount and unmount Fuse filesystems.
mount.fuse	is the command mount would call to mount a Fuse filesystem.
ulockmgr_server	is the Userspace Lock Manager Server for Fuse filesystems.
libfuse.so	contains the FUSE API functions.
libulockmgr.so	contains the Userspace Lock Manager API functions.

Last updated on 2014-02-17 23:16:31 +0000