sshfs

sshfs EBCDIC to ASCII

Hi all, what I want to do is to be able to mount via sshfs some files on the mainframe via USS on my local PC. I can do that but sshfs doesnt do straight off the conversion from EBCDIC to ascii/unicode. Is there any flags that i can set. Alternativly, does anybody know of a library that does EBCDIC to ASCII conversions so i can add to...

bash check if user mount fails

I'm writing a script to transfer some files over sftp. I wanted do the transfer as a local transfer by mounting the directory with sshfs because it makes creating the required directory structure much easier. The problem I'm having is I'm unsure how to deal with the situation of not having a network connection. Basically I need a way ...

Mount a remote file system using SSHFS

Ok, the setup is a bit convoluted. Don't blame me, I'm not the sysadmin. Here's the situation. There is one machine that I can SSH into from outside the network. I can only remote in as root (yes, you heard right) using my private key. I know that it is more typical to log in as a user and then elevate privileges, but in this case, I ha...

UnionFS and SSHFS for Windows

Is there something like a UnionFS for Windows? My usecase: read-only mount a remote filesystem via SSH and have something like UnionFS handle the writes. I know this is possible on Unix, how 'bout Windows? ...

dokan sshfs for windows.

I read an article here about dokan sshfs for windows. I want to ask if you know similar software (free or not) in order to access windows partitions from windows. Samba is a always an answer, however I am seeking for something more secure. ...

How stable is dokan sshfs?

People have reported BSOD on windows 7 (64bit) http://dokan-dev.net/en/2009/04/06/the-next-release-of-dokan-library/. For some reason unknown to me, my explorer on winxp sp3 (32bit) gets shaky and at time freezes if I do lots of browsing via doken SSHFS drive. Have you faced any issues lately with sshfs doken driver? Just wanted to get y...

Why does sshfs cause these emacs artifacts?

After opening a file in emacs (over an ssh tunneled, sshfs mounted file system) I get symbolic links like this: .#jobid.php -> [email protected]:1260471633 We have determined that these are emacs LOCK files. The sshfs filessystem is mounted with follow_symlinks and transform_symlinks, but it appears to be refusing to re...

how to invoke sshfs within python script?

I want to mount a remote directory using sshfs. sshfs working fine from terminal. But how to invoke it from within python script? I tried something like this - but didn't work at all. import os cmd = "/usr/bin/sshfs [email protected]:/home/giis /mnt" os.system(cmd) ...

sshfs with different gid on remote

I don't know how to mount a remote directory "remote_dir" on computer "remote", having remote gid "wgrp". Help is welcome. me@local$ sshfs me@remote:/remote_dir remote_as_wgrp ...wanted_options... A workaround is to create a new user "me_wgrp" belonging to group "wgrp". But the problem seems conceptually so simple that I'm sure the...

After mounting using sshfs I cannot commit my changes using subversion

Hello, local machine: Fedora 13 Subversion: 1.6.9 remote machine: CentSO 5.3 subversion 1.4.2 I have a project which is on the remote machine: [email protected]:projects/ssd1 I have mounted this on my local machine: sshfs [email protected]:projects/ssd1 /home/jbloggs/projects/mnt/ssd1 Everything mounts ok. So I open my project using...

Any way to eliminate time lag with sshfs?

If I rsync a directory with some remote directory under an sshfs management, even if the rsync process finishes synching the directory contents, there seems to be a time lag for the sshfs directory to get updated. It is unintuitive and makes some automation process relying on sshfs contents unstable. How do I eliminate the lag? ...