State of FUSE on FreeBSD

[Ben RUBSON]

> On 11 Aug 2017, at 11:01, Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 11 Aug 2017, at 10:59, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus at rath.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Aug 03 2017, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus at rath.org> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I am the upstream maintainer of libfuse. I'd like to refresh / improve
>>> the FreeBSD support in libfuse. My goal is for libfuse not to require
>>> any FreeBSD specific patches.
>> [...]
>> 
>> Stefan kindly helped me setup a FreeBSD VM, and libfuse is now compiling
>> nicely.
>> 
>> However, there is one problem: I am not able to mount any
>> filesystems. The error is always:
>> 
>> # example/hello /mnt
>> fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory
>> 
>> Do I need to do anything special to enable FUSE support in FreeBSD?
> 
> Hi Nikolaus,
> 
> Certainly you need to load fuse module :
> kldload fuse

And you can add the following to /boot/loader.conf :
fuse_load="YES"

So that it will be automatically loaded at boot time.

Ben