zz85 / sshfuse

mirror a remote ssh host fs on on a fuse mount

sshfuse

Mirror a remote ssh host fs on on a fuse mount. this is a simplistic sshfs implementation in rust.

Idea

The idea is to recreate a resemblance of a remote directory structure locally through the fuse file system, by spawning a bunch of background detailed list ssh commands on a remote host,

Instructions

You would need to install fuse on your system...

On Mac,

brew install --cask osxfuse

Debian based Linux

sudo apt-get install fuse

CentOS

sudo yum install fuse

Example usage

sshfuse --user sshuser --target 123.123.123.123

Supported use cases

• mount a Read-only filesystem
• listing and navigating directories (cd and ls commands)
• syscalls (getattr, readdir, opendir)
• read (cat, less commands)

TODO

Optimizations

• more optimistic fetching (eg. fetch deeper levels, prefetch partially expired directories)
• pipeline / reuse pipelines
• spawn multiple background threads
• collapse inflight requests

Features

• take stdin for ssh prompts (eg. passwords etc)
• multiple ssh target helper
• gather stats

Fixes

• invalidate file caching
• stat files / read symlinks