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A network filesystem client to connect to SSH servers

30 mentions on Hacker News by 26 people: 2 stories, 28 comments · first 2016-04-26 · latest 2025-09-28

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  1. Yes, I wrote down some that do and don't support it here: https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs/issues/300
    comment by nh2 · 2025-09-28 · in SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3
  2. …Thanks for the info as well, I was under the impression sshfs was under active development (: [1] https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs/issues/77
    comment by alkh · 2024-10-11 · in Started a guide to writing FUSE filesystems in Python
  3. …I found it to be easier to use and less glitchy than NFS. So I will likely continue to use it. [0] https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs?tab=readme-ov-file#developm...
    comment by opan · 2024-09-21 · in Sshfs for Windows
  4. …overhead and AAA complications than the other two. Unfortunately, it is currently semi-abandonware: https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs/blob/eadf7f104a479f0313ecd4... It works well enough for me, but there are certain issues to be aware of.…
    comment by jacobgkau · 2024-07-18 · in SSH has become our universal (Unix) external access protocol
  5. …sshfs. If you can login via ssh then you can mount the remote server through ssh as a local drive. https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs For added security I limit my home ssh access to a handful of trusted IPs including my cloud VM. Then I set…
    comment by lizknope · 2024-07-03 · in The Cheapest NAS
  6. …SSHFS does not have any active, regular contributors, and there are a number of known issues https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs#development-status
    comment by lioeters · 2024-01-27 · in Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage
  7. …of OpenSSH, learn something new every day. Also, looks like sshfs used in Slackware is abandoned. https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs A quote from the link, I wonder if this project will be the 'one': >If you would like to take over this…
    comment by jmclnx · 2023-09-05 · in A currently maintained fork of SSHFS
  8. …a gentle reminder, dear reader, sshfs is looking for maintainers, and currently does not have any. https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
    comment by gurjeet · 2022-07-23 · in How to Use Sshfs on OpenBSD
  9. We changed the URL from https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs/commit/c91eb9a9a992f1a36c49... , which is hard to follow, to the project page which seems to say the same thing.
    comment by dang · 2022-06-20 · in Sshfs Is Orphaned
  10. …any active, regular contributors, and there are a number of known issues (see the bugtracker)." https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs#development-status
    comment by vladvasiliu · 2022-04-26 · in Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
  11. I don't believe sshfs is safe with SQLite with concurrent use: https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs/issues/204#issue-561260021
    comment by benbjohnson · 2022-04-01 · in Postgres wire compatible SQLite proxy
  12. I don't believe sshfs is safe to use with concurrent access on the database: https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs/issues/204#issue-561260021
    comment by benbjohnson · 2022-04-01 · in Postgres wire compatible SQLite proxy
  13. One could also use sshfs to access a remote SQLite DB file. https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
    comment by philshem · 2022-04-01 · in Postgres wire compatible SQLite proxy
  14. sshfs? https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
    comment by philshem · 2022-02-01 · in Critical Samba flaw presents code execution threat
  15. …be some lag - `ls` will require a round trip - but your local terminal will be much snappier. [0] https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
    comment by acoard · 2020-04-08 · in Mosh
  16. …with sshfs[2], and then using Git on the mounted filesystem". [1]: https://syncthing.net [2]: https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
    comment by m11r · 2019-07-19 · in Dropbox silently installed new file manager app on users’ systems
  17. …you to mount remote filesystems over SSH using FUSE. I have tried this and it doesn't work well. https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
    comment by ricketycricket · 2018-12-12 · in Facebook retires Nuclide Atom extension
  18. daily-ish drivers of mine: - autossh - https://linux.die.net/man/1/autossh - sshfs - https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs - pandoc - https://pandoc.org/installing.html - exiftool - https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ - htop -…
    comment by pmlnr · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
  19. …-- Multi-purpose relay most: http://www.jedsoft.org/most/ pager more features than less/more sshfs: https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs remote filesystem using SFTP via FUSE passgo: https://github.com/ejcx/passgo Simple golang password…
    comment by joshbaptiste · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
  20. …the joys of sshfs which lets you mount whatever you can ssh/sftp into. What'll they think of next.. https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
    comment by d0ugie · 2018-08-25 · in A Portable Cloud Experiment: SFTP Cloud Storage Sync
  21. Would something like sshfs work for you? https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
    comment by eat_veggies · 2018-06-22 · in Atom 1.28
  22. Try https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs in the meantime.
    comment by ronjouch · 2018-05-03 · in VS Code 1.23 released
  23. …enjoy your local toolshed :) . X forwarding is overkill when all you need is accessing files. [1] https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs , packaged by your distribution
    comment by ronjouch · 2017-09-12 · in Introducing Atom-IDE
  24. How does this compare to SSHFS? https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
    comment by pmlnr · 2017-07-30 · in SSH browser with rsync transfer engine
  25. …don't see much of a difference. Protocol, implementation, sure. But it's the same end result. [1]: https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
    comment by Groxx · 2017-01-31 · in Dropbox’s Smart Sync lets users open a file stored only in the cloud like normal
  26. …only one user is accessing the remote copy, anyway). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV [1] https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS
    comment by webmaven · 2016-12-29 · in Atom-in-orbit: Putting Atom in the browser
  27. SSHFS is a part of Fuse. Repository: https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
    comment by brudgers · 2016-06-18 · in SSHFS Port to Windows/Cygwin
  28. …over ssh works well over most WAN connections). It looks like it now caches directly contents too ( https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs ). It probably wasn't fair for me to include SSHFS in the list since I haven't used it in so long. I was…
    comment by antoncohen · 2016-04-26 · in Dropbox Project Infinite