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- Abstract
- ========
-
- This is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol.
- Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it is very easy
- to set up: i.e. on the server side there's nothing to do. On the
- client side mounting the filesystem is as easy as logging into the
- server with ssh.
-
- The idea of sshfs was taken from the SSHFS filesystem distributed with
- LUFS, which I found very useful. There were some limitations of that
- codebase, so I rewrote it. Features of this implementation are:
-
- - Based on FUSE (the best userspace filesystem framework for Linux ;)
-
- - Multithreading: more than one request can be on it's way to the
- server
-
- - Allowing large reads (max 64k)
-
- - Caching directory contents
-
- - Reconnect on failure
-
- Latest version
- ==============
-
- The latest version and more information can be found on
-
- http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html
-
-
- How to mount a filesystem
- =========================
-
- Once sshfs is installed (see next section) running it is very simple:
-
- sshfs hostname: mountpoint
-
- Note, that it's recommended to run it as user, not as root. For this
- to work the mountpoint must be owned by the user. If the username is
- different on the host you are connecting to, then use the
- "username@host:" form. If you need to enter a password sshfs will ask
- for it (actually it just runs ssh which ask for the password if
- needed). You can also specify a directory after the ":". The default
- is the home directory.
-
- Also many ssh options can be specified (see the manual pages for
- sftp(1) and ssh_config(5)), including the remote port number
- ('-oport=PORT')
-
- To unmount the filesystem:
-
- fusermount -u moutpoint
-
-
- Installing
- ==========
-
- First you need to download FUSE 2.2 or later from:
-
- http://fuse.sourceforge.net
-
- You also need to install the devel package for glib2.0. After
- installing FUSE, compile sshfs the usual way:
-
- ./configure
- make
- make install (as root)
-
- And you are ready to go.
-
- If checking out from CVS for the first time also do 'autoreconf -i'
- before doing './configure'.
-