libfuse mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• fusermount3
• mount.fuse3

Projektgeschichte

The libfuse README describes FUSE as two pieces: the kernel module maintained in the regular Linux kernel repositories and the libfuse userspace library maintained in the libfuse repository. The same README describes high-level synchronous and low-level asynchronous APIs, mount and unmount helpers, request handling, and response functions.

The repository history reaches back to an imported-sources commit dated 2001-10-23. Its kernel interface header carries copyright notices for Miklos Szeredi from 2001 onward, and the project changelog for FUSE 2.9.5 on 2016-01-14 thanks Szeredi while naming Nikolaus Rath as the new maintainer. libfuse 3.x later moved packaging and development toward Meson/Ninja and the fuse3 command set.

Adoptionsgeschichte

FUSE became a central Linux packaging dependency because it let SSH, archive, cloud, virtual, encrypted, and application-specific filesystems ship as ordinary user-space programs. The README states that libfuse is shipped by all major Linux distributions and has been in production use across a wide range of systems for many years.

Wie es verwendet wird

A FUSE filesystem normally links against libfuse, mounts a userspace daemon, receives kernel requests through callbacks, and sends replies through the library. The package also provides fusermount3 and mount.fuse3 for mounting user filesystems with controlled privilege boundaries.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

libfuse is one of the packages that changed what a filesystem package can be: a userspace daemon, not a kernel module. Its formulae are unusually sensitive to Linux-only behavior, setuid helpers, /etc/fuse.conf policy, kernel ABI expectations, and the split between older FUSE 2 consumers and newer FUSE 3 consumers.

Zeitleiste

• 2001-10-23: GitHub commit metadata records the imported-sources commit later tagged start.
• 2016-01-14: The changelog records FUSE 2.9.5 and the maintainer change to Nikolaus Rath.
• 2017-09-12: The changelog records libfuse 3.2.0 dropping autotools build support.
• 2026-03-18: GitHub release metadata records fuse-3.18.2.

Related projects

• The Linux kernel FUSE module is the kernel-side peer of libfuse.
• macFUSE is the macOS-oriented related project named by the libfuse README for macOS users.
• SSHFS and many other userspace filesystems are built on the FUSE model.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/libfuse/libfuse/commits/bc22e7bec727bc72d91a3001fbda976f1adf352d
• https://api.github.com/repos/libfuse/libfuse/releases?per_page=100
• https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse
• https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/blob/master/ChangeLog.rst
• https://libfuse.github.io/doxygen/