Introduction to Fuse2
FUSE, or Filesystem in Userspace, allows userspace programs to create
virtual filesystems. This is a really helpful technology, and the current
Fuse version is major version 3. Fuse2 on the other hand is still used by
AppImages which rely on this technology. You may extract AppImages as you
wish which would bypass this requirement, but other people opt to just
install Fuse2 and run the AppImages directly.
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Kernel Configuration
Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the
kernel if necessary:
File systems --->
<*/M> FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) support [FUSE_FS]
<*/M> Character device in Userspace support [CUSE]
Installation of Fuse2
First apply a patch to fix compatibility with glibc-2.34 and later and
regenerate the configure script:
patch -Np1 -i ../fuse-2.9.9-build_fixes-1.patch &&
autoreconf -fi -I/usr/share/gettext/m4
Install Fuse2 by running the following
commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static \
INIT_D_PATH=/tmp/init.d &&
make
Now, as the root user:
make install &&
rm -rf /tmp/init.d &&
install -vDm644 doc/{how-fuse-works,kernel.txt} \
-t /usr/share/doc/fuse-2.9.9/Configuring Fuse2
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
Contents
Installed Programs:
fusermount, mount.fuse, and ulockmgr_server
Installed Libraries:
libfuse and libulockmgr
Installed Directories:
/usr/include/fuse and /usr/share/doc/fuse-2.9.9
Short Descriptions
fusermount |
is a suid root program to mount and unmount
Fuse2 filesystems
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mount.fuse |
is the command mount calls to mount a Fuse2
filesystem
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ulockmgr_server |
is the Userspace Lock Manager Server for Fuse2 filesystems
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libfuse
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contains the Fuse2 API functions
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libulockmgr
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starts ulockmgr_server and helps with its
execution
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