diff --git a/Godeps/Godeps.json b/Godeps/Godeps.json
index ada8c7bd1..f72ac9e6a 100644
--- a/Godeps/Godeps.json
+++ b/Godeps/Godeps.json
@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/jbenet/go-datastore",
 			"Rev": "6a1c83bda2a71a9bdc936749fdb507df958ed949"
 		},
+		{
+			"ImportPath": "github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version",
+			"Rev": "ff72c39433f95ada15f116fa493a51eeec2bd52e"
+		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/jbenet/go-is-domain",
 			"Rev": "93b717f2ae17838a265e30277275ee99ee7198d6"
diff --git a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/README.md b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e03afc0c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# go-fuse-version
+
+Simple package to get the user's FUSE libraries information.
+
+- Godoc: https://godoc.org/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version
+
+**Warning** Currently only supports OSXFUSE. if you want more, add them, it's really trivial now.
+
+## Example
+
+```Go
+package main
+
+import (
+  "fmt"
+  "os"
+
+  fuseversion "github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version"
+)
+
+func main() {
+  sys, err := fuseversion.LocalFuseSystems()
+  if err != nil {
+    fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "%s\n", err)
+    os.Exit(1)
+  }
+
+  fmt.Printf("FuseVersion, AgentVersion, Agent\n")
+  for _, s := range *sys {
+    fmt.Printf("%s, %s, %s\n", s.FuseVersion, s.AgentVersion, s.AgentName)
+  }
+}
+```
+
+## fuseprint
+
+If you dont use Go, you can also install the example as the silly util fuseprint:
+
+```
+> go get github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/fuseprint
+> go install github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/fuseprint
+> fuseprint
+FuseVersion, AgentVersion, Agent
+27, 2.7.2, OSXFUSE
+```
diff --git a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/fuseprint/.gitignore b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/fuseprint/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4778de0e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/fuseprint/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+fuseprint
diff --git a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/fuseprint/README.md b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/fuseprint/README.md
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..32d46ee88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/fuseprint/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../README.md
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/fuseprint/index.go b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/fuseprint/index.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8e4e04aa6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/fuseprint/index.go
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+
+	fuseversion "github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	sys, err := fuseversion.LocalFuseSystems()
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "%s\n", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+
+	fmt.Printf("FuseVersion, AgentVersion, Agent\n")
+	for _, s := range *sys {
+		fmt.Printf("%s, %s, %s\n", s.FuseVersion, s.AgentVersion, s.AgentName)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/version.go b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/version.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b46bd7db4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/version.go
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+// package fuseversion simply exposes the version of FUSE installed
+// in the user's machine. For reasoning, see:
+// - https://github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/issues/177
+// - https://github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/issues/202
+// - https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/issues/175#issuecomment-61888505
+package fuseversion
+
+type Systems map[string]FuseSystem
+
+type FuseSystem struct {
+	// FuseVersion is the version of the FUSE protocol
+	FuseVersion string
+
+	// AgentName identifies the system implementing FUSE, or Agent
+	AgentName string
+
+	// AgentVersion is the version of the Agent program
+	// (it fights for the user! Sometimes it fights the user...)
+	AgentVersion string
+}
+
+// LocalFuseSystems returns a map of FuseSystems, keyed by name.
+// For example:
+//
+//  systems := fuseversion.LocalFuseSystems()
+//  for n, sys := range systems {
+//    fmt.Printf("%s, %s, %s", n, sys.FuseVersion, sys.AgentVersion)
+//  }
+//  // Outputs:
+//  // OSXFUSE, , 2.7.2
+//
+func LocalFuseSystems() (*Systems, error) {
+	return getLocalFuseSystems() // implemented by each platform
+}
+
+var notImplYet = `Error: not implemented for %s yet. :(
+Please do it: https://github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version`
diff --git a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/version_bsd.go b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/version_bsd.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a1d2460c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/version_bsd.go
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+// +build dragonfly freebsd netbsd openbsd
+
+package fuseversion
+
+import (
+	"runtime"
+)
+
+func getLocalFuseSystems() (*Systems, error) {
+	return nil, fmt.Sprintf(notImplYet, runtime.GOARCH())
+}
diff --git a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/version_darwin.go b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/version_darwin.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..84325578b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/version_darwin.go
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package fuseversion
+
+// #cgo CFLAGS: -I /usr/local/include/osxfuse/ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DFUSE_USE_VERSION=25
+// #cgo LDFLAGS: /usr/local/lib/libosxfuse.dylib
+//
+// #include <fuse/fuse.h>
+// #include <fuse/fuse_common.h>
+// #include <fuse/fuse_darwin.h>
+import "C"
+import "fmt"
+
+func getLocalFuseSystems() (*Systems, error) {
+	sys := Systems{}
+	sys["OSXFUSE"] = getOSXFUSE()
+	return &sys, nil
+}
+
+func getOSXFUSE() FuseSystem {
+	return FuseSystem{
+		FuseVersion:  fmt.Sprintf("%d", int(C.fuse_version())),
+		AgentName:    "OSXFUSE",
+		AgentVersion: C.GoString(C.osxfuse_version()),
+	}
+}
diff --git a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/version_linux.go b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/version_linux.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e4944d1c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/version_linux.go
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+package fuseversion
+
+import (
+	"runtime"
+)
+
+func getLocalFuseSystems() (*Systems, error) {
+	return nil, fmt.Sprintf(notImplYet, runtime.GOARCH())
+}
diff --git a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/version_windows.go b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/version_windows.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e4944d1c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-fuse-version/version_windows.go
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+package fuseversion
+
+import (
+	"runtime"
+)
+
+func getLocalFuseSystems() (*Systems, error) {
+	return nil, fmt.Sprintf(notImplYet, runtime.GOARCH())
+}