At 05:52 AM 2/11/2007, Till Maas wrote:
On Thursday 08 February 2007 01:02, Daniel Yek wrote: > I am hoping for a secure solution to mount directories "shared out" from my > other computer located remotely over the Internet. So that I can edit > source files and execute programs "locally" and compile remotely (a much > faster machine). > Is NFS(4) still the best (and easiest-to-use?) solution? As someone else suggested, try fuse-sshfs, with sshfs remotehosts: /mnt/remotehome you can mount your remote home directory to /mnt/remotehome and with fusermount -u /mnt/remotehome you can umount it. Nothing more than a unprivileged ssh account on the remote machine and fuse-sshfs on the local machine and a user in the fuse group is required. Regards, Till
I have been using fuse-sshfs for a few days now. It is something good to know and I'm still using it, but it fell short in 2 aspects so far:
1. While saving over the Internet each time I habitually save a text file isn't too bad, executing a program in the fuse-sshfs mounted directory is unbearable. It took my program a warping 4 minutes to "download" and execute. Worst, everytime the program reload a DSO file, the DSO file is "downloaded" over the Internet again (and again.)
Caching is very much inadequate.I can use rsync over a small directory hierarchy to workaround this problem though (still not exactly convenient enough to be transparent).
2. Whenever I lose my ssh connection due to some timeout problem, it was such a hassle to quit all text editors (so that no process has a handle to a fuse-sshfs mounted subdirectory, I think,) and remount the directory. Remounting shouldn't require unmounting or quiting text editors.
Thanks for all feedback. They are very useful. -- Daniel Yek