The use case for sshfs that you can quickly get access to all the files accessible to you in some machine without needing to be root either local or remotely.

The use case for sshfs that you can quickly get access to all the files accessible to you in some machine without needing to be root either local or remotely. I have had very stable networks for over 10 years in most of my work, so I don't think I haver ever suffered from hangups. It does not fail gracefully when you read or write bigger files than your connection can decently handle. But I don't know which system would behave better under such conditions.