13ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyanconfig FUSE_FS 23ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan tristate "FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) support" 33ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan help 43ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem 53ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan in a userspace program. 63ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan 7*807185ebSRobert P. J. Day There's also a companion library: libfuse2. This library is available 8*807185ebSRobert P. J. Day from the FUSE homepage: 93ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/> 10*807185ebSRobert P. J. Day although chances are your distribution already has that library 11*807185ebSRobert P. J. Day installed if you've installed the "fuse" package itself. 123ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan 133ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information. 143ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version. 153ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan 163ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use 173ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M. 18*807185ebSRobert P. J. Day 19*807185ebSRobert P. J. Dayconfig CUSE 20*807185ebSRobert P. J. Day tristate "Character device in Userspace support" 21*807185ebSRobert P. J. Day depends on FUSE_FS 22*807185ebSRobert P. J. Day help 23*807185ebSRobert P. J. Day This FUSE extension allows character devices to be 24*807185ebSRobert P. J. Day implemented in userspace. 25*807185ebSRobert P. J. Day 26*807185ebSRobert P. J. Day If you want to develop or use a userspace character device 27*807185ebSRobert P. J. Day based on CUSE, answer Y or M. 28