libnbd and fuse: missing /dev/fuse device

[Aaron LI]

On 1/20/26 5:26 AM, Autumn Jolitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After installing `ocaml` / `nbdkit` and `go121`, I compiled libnbd and more specifically libnbd/fuse. My goal is to be able to mount an nbd device in user space.
> 
> However, a call to `fuse_mount (fuse, mountpoint)` returns -1 with "fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory”
> 

Hi Autumn,

Did you load the `fuse` kernel module by `kldload fuse` ?

By the way, `fuse` support is still regard as experimental in DragonFly. 
  It's been tested to work with sshfs, but may not work with others.

Cheers,
Aaron