SSHFS-MUX User Manual

Introduction

SSHFS-MUX is an extention of SSHFS (SSH Filesystem), it is able to mount many remote hosts to a local mountpoint at the same time over SSH channels.

Although the functionality of SSHFS-MUX can be also implementated by SSHFS and UnionFS combination, SSHFS-MUX has advantages over them on:

Convenience: Save your time to create/clean many mount points of sshfs for each host
Performance: Better I/O throughput, especially when FUSE implementation of unionfs is used
Flexibility: Append/Remove remote hosts to previous mount point on the fly

Download

You can download current version here:

sshfs-mux-1.0.tar.gz

ChangeLog

Installation

Prerequisite

To use SSHFS-MUX, you should install following packages: FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace), Gnome Library.
In Debian System, simply type

$ apt-get install libfuse2 libfuse-dev fuse-utils libglib2.0-dev

will work.

Installing

Currently,

$ make

and copy the file sshfsm to the place you like.
Copy sshnodelay.so to /usr/lib (If you have installed SSHFS, then you don not have to do so).

Usage

Mount: Mount remote hosts to a local mountpoint

$ sshfsm user@host1:dir user@host2:dir mountpoint // Specify hosts from command line

$ sshfsm mountpoint -o hosts_file=file // Specify hosts from a hosts file (sample)

$ sshfsm user@host:dir mountpoint -o hosts_file=file // Or both

Unmount: Unmount SSHFS-MUX at a local mountpoint

$ sshfsm -u mountpoint

$ fusermount -u mountpoint

Add/Remove: Add/Remove additional hosts to an SSHFS-MUX mountpoint

$ sshfsm -a user@host1:dir user@host2:dir mountpoint

$ sshfsm -a mountpoint -ohosts_file=file

$ sshfsm -r user@host1:dir user@host2:dir mountpoint

$ sshfsm -r mountpoint -ohosts_file=file

Other Basic Usages: See help or manual for more information

$ sshfsm -h

Using with GXP cluster shell: Build ad-hoc global filesystems in the Grid environments [Manual Page]

[64/64/64] $ gmnt /dir/to/share /dir/to/mount

FAQ

Please refer to following faqs: SSHFS-MUX FAQ, SSHFS FAQ, FUSE FAQ.

Evaluation

(To be continued).