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Somewhat related: how reliable are SSHfs and other fuse filesystems on macs and on Linux these days? - On the Mac I'm worried about using fuse in general. Stab
by tbrock 11y ago
Somewhat related: how reliable are SSHfs and other fuse filesystems on macs and on Linux these days?
- On the Mac I'm worried about using fuse in general. Stability, reliability, Mac OS X being a hostile environment as its not "blessed" by Apple.
- On Linux I'm more worried about the general nature of SSH as the basis for a filesystem. Which also applies to the running it on a Mac.
The reason I ask is because theoretically you could spin up a t2 micro with a 1tb EBS volume and forget the whole Dropbox thing, mount it wherever you please, whatever.
Obviously there are drawbacks, it's not local (fast), it doesn't have all the collaboration features of Dropbox, etc. but for relatively cold storage (colder than I need on a local ssd) that I want to access somewhat frequently, SSHfs seems like it could be fine.
I'm not sure how easy it would be to corrupt, etc and I'm not sure about the two things I mention above. Hoping someone here knows.
- devit 11y agoYou can just redirect a port with SSH and then use Samba/CIFS or NFS if you are worried about sshfs.
- tbrock 11y agoI'm more worried about a shitty samba/cifs implementation! That is about the only worse thing I could think of.
- tomkinstinch 11y agoI sometimes use ExpanDrive on OSX, which is a nice GUI wrapper for what I believe to be something like fuse sshfs: http://www.expandrive.com/apps/expandrive/ http://www.expandrive.com/apps/expandrive/ It works well, though there can be noticeable latency sometimes, even when saving very small files. It can also mount S3, FTP, Dropbox, etc.