13ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyanconfig FUSE_FS 23ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan tristate "FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) support" 3*60bcc88aSSeth Forshee select FS_POSIX_ACL 43ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan help 53ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem 63ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan in a userspace program. 73ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan 8807185ebSRobert P. J. Day There's also a companion library: libfuse2. This library is available 9807185ebSRobert P. J. Day from the FUSE homepage: 103ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/> 11807185ebSRobert P. J. Day although chances are your distribution already has that library 12807185ebSRobert P. J. Day installed if you've installed the "fuse" package itself. 133ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan 143ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information. 153ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version. 163ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan 173ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use 183ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M. 19807185ebSRobert P. J. Day 20807185ebSRobert P. J. Dayconfig CUSE 21807185ebSRobert P. J. Day tristate "Character device in Userspace support" 22807185ebSRobert P. J. Day depends on FUSE_FS 23807185ebSRobert P. J. Day help 24807185ebSRobert P. J. Day This FUSE extension allows character devices to be 25807185ebSRobert P. J. Day implemented in userspace. 26807185ebSRobert P. J. Day 27807185ebSRobert P. J. Day If you want to develop or use a userspace character device 28807185ebSRobert P. J. Day based on CUSE, answer Y or M. 29