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I've recently discovered sshfs and learned about needing to have FUSE as a dependency for OS X, which spiked by interest. The code looks very clean and easy to

by alkh 2y ago

I've recently discovered sshfs and learned about needing to have FUSE as a dependency for OS X, which spiked by interest. The code looks very clean and easy to understand, so thanks for that! Is there any guide/course you would recommend for the introduction to FUSE? It looks like all you have is to provide implementations to certains functions your filesystem will use but it's hard without knowing the details(ex. I wouldn't know I had to implement readdir without your code, and so on)

pkaye 2y ago
I've used sshfs in the past and I know the original authors stopped maintaining it though others took over. I did find the network error handling wasn't the greatest. Like it would unmount the fuse mount due to network error and I'd be writing files to the local mount directory silently until space filled up. Perhaps its a Linux specific issue or I've used the wrong options though.
- alkh 2y ago
  To be honest, I knew about the speed limitations of sshfs already, so I typically use rsync to work with large files. This way, I wouldn't write the data locally even if the connection fails. I've checked the github repo and it looks like there are a number of issues related to network timeout that hasn't been addressed for a long time[1]. However, I mostly used it on OS X, so my experience might be different from yours Thanks for the info as well, I was under the impression sshfs was under active development (: [1]https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs/issues/77 https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs/issues/77
- beeboobaa3 2y ago
  > I'd be writing files to the local mount directory silently until space filled up that's why you `chattr +i` the mountpoint
jiggunjer 2y ago
The API documentation can be referenced at https://github.com/libfuse/python-fuse https://github.com/libfuse/python-fuse It doesn't seem to be a complex interfac

by alkh 2y ago

pkaye 2y ago

I've used sshfs in the past and I know the original authors stopped maintaining it though others took over. I did find the network error handling wasn't the greatest. Like it would unmount the fuse mount due to network error and I'd be writing files to the local mount directory silently until space filled up. Perhaps its a Linux specific issue or I've used the wrong options though.

alkh 2y ago
To be honest, I knew about the speed limitations of sshfs already, so I typically use rsync to work with large files. This way, I wouldn't write the data locally even if the connection fails. I've checked the github repo and it looks like there are a number of issues related to network timeout that hasn't been addressed for a long time[1]. However, I mostly used it on OS X, so my experience might be different from yours Thanks for the info as well, I was under the impression sshfs was under active development (: [1]https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs/issues/77 https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs/issues/77
beeboobaa3 2y ago
> I'd be writing files to the local mount directory silently until space filled up that's why you `chattr +i` the mountpoint

jiggunjer 2y ago

The API documentation can be referenced at https://github.com/libfuse/python-fuse https://github.com/libfuse/python-fuse It doesn't seem to be a complex interfac