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 Created because [fuse4js](https://github.com/bcle/fuse4js) isn't maintained anymore and doesn't compile on iojs
 
+## Requirements
+
+You need to have FUSE installed
+
+* On Linux/Ubuntu `sudo apt-get install libfuse-dev`
+* On OSX install [OSXFuse](http://osxfuse.github.com/)
+
 ## Usage
 
 Try creating an empty folder called `mnt` and run the below example