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" ... sshfs, which is built on top of FUSE, which is something you can install on a Mac ..." I've given a lot of thought to ssh/sftp mount points (for obvious
by rsync 4y ago
" ... sshfs, which is built on top of FUSE, which is something you can install on a Mac ..."
I've given a lot of thought to ssh/sftp mount points (for obvious reasons) and the standard recipe (and support answer) at rsync.net has been FUSE/sshfs.
I've even written a handful of scripts and one-liners to support my personal use of sshfs on my own machines, etc.
But lately ... I've just switched to using "Mountain Duck" which does everything I want and is quick and easy and slick and professional.
I forget what the license cost is, but it's worth it. The "official" FUSE for OSX and sshfs packages were getting old and came from odd sources (sshfs for mac is from 2014) and I don't think you can 'brew install' them, etc.
Mountain Duck.
- jedberg 4y agoYou can install sshfs via brew, but it works a lot better if you just download the package manually. That being said, I wouldn't recommend using sshfs on Mac. I used it for about a year, and about 90% of the time it worked great. The rest of the time it would hang, just not sync, not let me write files, etc. and every couple of weeks it would break so badly that a restart was the only fix, usually at the most inopportune times. I ended up just grabbing an old external hard drive and installing syncthing. The remote server still has all the RAID and backups and whatnot, but now I basically have a local cache on the old hard drive, so it works consistently and is fast. If it breaks, oh well, I'll get another one and sync it again.
- KolenCh 4y agoI remember at some point it would hang and becomes very difficult to remount after that. There was an issue that has a work around but wasn’t fixed by the time I give it up.