Questions tagged [sshfs]

sshfs is a FUSE filesystem for Linux which allows directories on remote machines accessible via SSH to be mounted locally.

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What is a robust alternative to sshfs (which has been recently orphaned)?

According to https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs, sshfs is now an orphaned project, with no active maintainers. Is there a good, safe, robust alternative, one can use to mount remote filesystems?
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sshfs passwordless

Does any one know ssh -i equivalent for sshfs ? I want to use sshfs without promting for a password
lakshmipathi
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What are large read requests in sshfs and is it recommended to enable them?

sshfs has the following option: -o large_read issue large read requests (2.4 only) What exactly does this do and how large are large read requests? Would it be recommended generally or specifically for me to enable this (and is it…
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sshfs problem when losing connection

I've a problem when I lost the wireless network connection after mounting a remote folder with sshfs on Linux. When I lost the connection the shell become frozen, if I open another shell and I try to access to the mounting point also this new shell…
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Preventing chown, chmod and rm -r over sshfs

I recently did a chown on my home dir but forgot I had used sshfs to map a drive on a remote server. :( Is there a way to make sure no file altering command will "cross over" to the other side? :)
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Can I move a subtree containing files owned by 3 different users to an sshfs mount point?

I have a tree of files and folders, most of which are owned by the principal user we'll call "laurel". One of the subtrees is wholly owned by another user called "hardy". Finally, because Laurel & Hardy like mysql, there's a mysql data directory…
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Root user can't mount non-root user on remote machine with sshfs

I'll try to keep this simple. Here's what works: Mounting root@wherever:/ with sshfs while I'm root. But if I'm root and I try sshfs test@somewhere:/ /home/me/test -o idmap=user or sshfs test@somewhere:/ /home/me/test -o idmap=allow_other I…
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