3 This is a fuse filesystem that provides extended attribute (xattr)
4 support over any filesystem by using "sidecar files", i.e. separate
5 files that hold the extended attributes only, named by the same
6 pathname as the attributed file or directory with an additional
9 ## Original upstream version
11 This software originated as version 0.4 of
12 http://github.com/fbarriga/fuse_xattrs
14 ## How to mount a filesystem
16 Once fuse_xattrs is installed (see next section) running it is very simple:
18 fuse_xattrs source_directory mountpoint
20 To unmount the filesystem:
22 fusermount -u mountpoint
26 First you need to download FUSE 2.9 or later from
27 http://github.com/libfuse/libfuse.