FUSE - Filesystem in Userspace

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	Skill level: Medium
	The instructions on this page require a basic knowledge of linux.

Maintainer

Michael Weinberger

Description

FUSE is a kernel module that allows non-privileged users to run file system drivers in user space. With FUSE virtual files systems can be realized that can expose any data source as a filesystem. There are already many filesystems available that uses FUSE. more info

	Warning:
	This contrib installs gcc, cpp and some *-devel RPMs. Do not use the contrib, if you have security concerns with those packages installed.

Installation

Configuring the Dag Repositoy

dag

Installing FUSE

Download the smeserver-fuse RPM from http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/michaelw/sme7/FUSE

Install the package with all dependencies

/usr/bin/yum --enable=dag localinstall smeserver-fuse-*.el4.sme.noarch.rpm

Testing

To verify the installation mount a directory from a remote server you can access via ssh.

Installing the FUSE SSH Filesystem

 /usr/bin/yum --enable=dag install fuse-sshfs

Mount a remote directory

mkdir /mnt/fuse-ssh-test
sshfs <REMOTE_HOST_IP>:/var/log /mnt/fuse-ssh-test

When everything works you can see the log files of the remote server

ls /mnt/fuse-ssh-test

Cleaning up

umount /mnt/fuse-ssh-test
rm -rf /mnt/fuse-ssh-test
rpm -e fuse-sshfs

Uninstall

Unmount all FUSE filesystems.

Remove the base RPMs

rpm -e smeserver-fuse dkms dkms-fuse fuse fuse-sshfs 

and the dependencies if no longer needed

rpm -e cpp gcc glibc-devel glibc-headers glibc-kernheaders kernel-devel

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