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-7.4
platform.
Package Information
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]](../images/note.png)
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-1.8.5 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-2013.1.13 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.