old version kernel panic warning

Older versions of OSX FUSE (for Mac OS X) may kernel panic (it's bitten multiple of us already).
If you're on OSX, please make sure you have OSX FUSE 2.7.0+

Installing OSX FUSE

• from binary distribution
• from brew

from binary distribution

1. Go to http://osxfuse.github.io
2. Download + Install the package.

from brew

Simply:

brew update && brew install osxfuse

Note: conflicting installs with brew

If you receive the following error:

osxfuse: osxfuse is already installed from the binary distribution and conflicts with this formula.

Uninstall OSX FUSE binary from System Preferences before attempting to brew install osxfuse again.