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Automounting file system implemented in userspace with FUSE. Version 0.5.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-21.
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overview
Package summary
Automounting file system implemented in userspace with FUSE
Project links
Commands and aliases
- afuse
- afuse-avahissh
history
Project history and usage
afuse is an automounting filesystem implemented in user space with FUSE. It manages a directory of virtual directories and mounts a filesystem on demand when a path is accessed.
Project history
The upstream NEWS file records an initial 0.1 release, followed by 0.1.1 moving to SVN because SourceForge CVS was unreliable, 0.2 adding timeout-based unmounting, 0.4 adding macOS and FreeBSD support plus root pre-population, and 0.5.0 adding a mount_dir option. The current GitHub repository was created in 2013 and preserves that earlier SourceForge/SVN lineage in commit messages.
The README presents afuse as a minimal user-space automounter rather than a full replacement for system automount services. Its design advantage is that it runs as the invoking user, so mount commands can use that user's environment, ssh-agent, and graphical session when appropriate.
Adoption history
afuse is packaged in Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu according to the supplied facts. That distribution profile fits its Unix utility role: it is small, scriptable, and useful to people composing sshfs or other FUSE filesystems.
The package also ships afuse-avahissh, an example script that uses Avahi-discovered SFTP hosts to pre-populate the afuse root. That helper makes the tool more discoverable as a network-filesystem convenience package rather than only a FUSE primitive.
How it is used
A common invocation uses mount_template and unmount_template options, for example mounting sshfs targets below an afuse mountpoint and unmounting them with fusermount. afuse can also pre-populate its root directory from an external command and supports options such as exact_getattr and flushwrites.
The README warns that automounted filesystems are proxied through afuse and real mounts live under a temporary instance-specific directory, so there is overhead and stale temporary directories can remain after unclean shutdowns.
Why package nerds care
afuse is a compact example of the Unix packaging sweet spot: one executable, one helper script, and a behavior that becomes powerful only when combined with sshfs, Avahi, and shell templates.
It also carries historical packaging details: old SourceForge/SVN origins, FUSE ABI expectations, and platform notes for Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD.
Timeline
- 2008: 0.2 release commit imported from SourceForge SVN.
- 2013: GitHub repository created.
- 2022: 0.5.0 release commit added mount_dir support.
- 2026: Supplied package facts show afuse in Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu.
Related projects
- FUSE is the userspace filesystem interface afuse is built on.
- sshfs is the example mount command used in the README.
- Avahi is used by the afuse-avahissh helper for service discovery.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: blue
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
Risk classifier
blue risk · medium confidence · tool
Why
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
Signals
- text:ssh
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 2 platform targets.
- Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.
- Build metadata lists 3 build dependencies.
Recommended review
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executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
afuse | cli | global executable | |
afuse-avahissh | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-08
manager version0.5.0
manager updated2026-06-21
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.5.0
https://github.com/pcarrier/afuse
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:afuse |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.5.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/afuse |
| Homepage | https://github.com/pcarrier/afuse/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/pcarrier/afuse |
| Upstream docs | https://github.com/pcarrier/afuse#readme |
| License | GPL-2.0-only |
| Source archive | https://github.com/pcarrier/afuse/archive/refs/tags/v0.5.0.tar.gz |
| Last updated | 2026-06-21T17:35:26-04:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dependencies | libfuse@2 |
| Build dependencies | autoconf, automake, pkgconf |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | afuse |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Requirements |
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| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | yes |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Debian apt95%
afuse 0.5.0-0.1+b1
automounting file system implemented in user-space using FUSE
https://github.com/pcarrier/afuse
sudo apt install afuse- Section: utils
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: afuse
- 2 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Afuse
Ubuntu apt95%
afuse 0.5.0-0.1build2
automounting file system implemented in user-space using FUSE
https://github.com/pcarrier/afuse
sudo apt install afuse- Section: universe/utils
- Architecture: amd64
- 2 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Afuse
dnf95%
afuse 0.4.1-30.fc44
An automounter implemented with FUSE
https://github.com/pcarrier/afuse/
sudo dnf install afuse- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: afuse
- 4 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Afuse
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment