[Gllug] SSH filesystem?

Gordon Joly gordon.joly at pobox.com
Tue Oct 5 12:12:21 UTC 2004


At 11:40 am +0100 24/9/04, Jack Bertram wrote:

>
>
>I often need to copy files between remote systems over which I don't
>trust NFS.  At the moment I use scp.
>
>Is there a (virtual) filesystem which does the following:
>* Allows me to "mount" a remote system on my local filesystem
>* When I use the mount point for file operations, translates
>   all calls using ssh/scp, prompting for passphrase as appropriate
>   (or using ssh-agent)
>* (Preferably) has configurable connection timeouts so that it doesn't
>   maintain an ssh session for days on end when there are no operations
>   on the mounted filesystem
>
>cheers,
>jack




GmailFS?

:-)

GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail
account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python application and
uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide the
filesystem, and libgmail to communicate with Gmail.


http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html
etc.).
Gordo

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