1*ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 23ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyanconfig FUSE_FS 33ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan tristate "FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) support" 460bcc88aSSeth Forshee select FS_POSIX_ACL 53ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan help 63ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem 73ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan in a userspace program. 83ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan 9807185ebSRobert P. J. Day There's also a companion library: libfuse2. This library is available 10807185ebSRobert P. J. Day from the FUSE homepage: 113ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/> 12807185ebSRobert P. J. Day although chances are your distribution already has that library 13807185ebSRobert P. J. Day installed if you've installed the "fuse" package itself. 143ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan 153ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information. 163ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version. 173ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan 183ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use 193ef7784eSAlexey Dobriyan a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M. 20807185ebSRobert P. J. Day 21807185ebSRobert P. J. Dayconfig CUSE 22807185ebSRobert P. J. Day tristate "Character device in Userspace support" 23807185ebSRobert P. J. Day depends on FUSE_FS 24807185ebSRobert P. J. Day help 25807185ebSRobert P. J. Day This FUSE extension allows character devices to be 26807185ebSRobert P. J. Day implemented in userspace. 27807185ebSRobert P. J. Day 28807185ebSRobert P. J. Day If you want to develop or use a userspace character device 29807185ebSRobert P. J. Day based on CUSE, answer Y or M. 30