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
otherhand 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.
Package Information
Additional Downloads
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 up and
regenerate the configure script:
patch -Np1 -i ../conditionally-define-closefrom.patch &&
autoreconf -i
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 -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/fuse-2.9.9 &&
install -v -m644 doc/{how-fuse-works,kernel.txt} \
/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.so and libulockmgr.so
Installed Directories:
/usr/include/fuse and
/usr/share/doc/fuse-2.9.9
Short Descriptions
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fusermount
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is a suid root program to mount and unmount Fuse2 filesystems
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mount.fuse
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is the command mount calls to mount a
Fuse2 filesystem
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ulockmgr_server
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is the Userspace Lock Manager Server for Fuse2
filesystems
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libfuse.so
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contains the Fuse2 API functions
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libulockmgr.so
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starts ulockmgr_server and
helps with its execution
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