Installing OSX FUSE (for Mac OS X)

[jbenet]

old version kernel panic warning

Older versions of OSX FUSE (for Mac OS X) may kernel panic (it's bitten multiple of us already).
If you're on OSX, please make sure you have OSX FUSE 2.7.0+

Installing OSX FUSE

• from binary distribution
• from brew

from binary distribution

1. Go to http://osxfuse.github.io
2. Download + Install the package.

from brew

Simply:

brew update && brew install osxfuse

Note: conflicting installs with brew

If you receive the following error:

osxfuse: osxfuse is already installed from the binary distribution and conflicts with this formula.

Uninstall OSX FUSE binary from System Preferences before attempting to brew install osxfuse again.

[jbenet]

Closing this, but keeping as issue in case we need to discuss further.

[jbenet]

Btw, in the future we should have a packaged distribution for ipfs, and if so we may have to bundle (and upgrade) FUSE.

[whyrusleeping]

this looks great!

[transitive-bullshit]

On Mac OS 10.11.6, when I run fuse mount, I get the following:

Error: OSXFUSE version 3.5.3 not supported.

OSXFUSE versions <2.7.2 are known to cause kernel panics!
Please upgrade to the latest OSXFUSE version.
It is recommended you install it from the OSXFUSE website:
    http://osxfuse.github.io/

For more help, see:
    https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/177

This error message doesn't make any sense seeing as it acknowledges that I have the most recent version of fuse installed (3.5.3).

Here is the output of fuse-version:

OSXFUSE.FuseVersion: 29
OSXFUSE.AgentVersion: 3.5.3
OSXFUSE.AgentName: OSXFUSE

I'm guessing this is a common issue?

[victorb]

@fisch0920 seems the way we're checking that the version above 2.7.2 is not really proper, take a look here: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/73cd8b3e98aba252f0eadcc625472103a2dd1d53/fuse/node/mount_darwin.go#L141

There seems to be a switch to turn of the version checking as well, but I don't have osx to see if it actually works for you.

[victorb]

For future readers, there was an issue created specifically for the version check here: #3410

[ejholmes]

FWIW, brew install osxfuse no longer works, since it was migrated to caskroom/cask. The following does work:

$ brew tap caskroom/cask
$ brew update && brew cask install osxfuse