Diego Iastrubni wrote:
CRAP THIS FUSE THING IS HOT.
I would like to remove nfs from my work, and I am thinking of FUSE. How hard
is it to use ssh as a file-system? how "out of the box" is this? Whats the
performance of this thing?
Using SSH for a file system in Fuse is as easy as:
# sshfs hostname: mountpoint
See http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html
Perfoamnce is a whole different issue. Because of the way FUSE works each block of information will go through 3 copies
(kernel to sshfs, sshfs to kernel, kernel to file system user) on it's way, which is x3 more copies then NFS for example
will though. This is before talking about other aspects of using SSH as a file transfer medium.
FUSE is really great stuff, but it's meant to be used in situation were raw
perfomance is the issue.
<shameless plug>
If anyone wants to learn to write simple Fuse file systems in Perl, my lecture on the topic from the latest (and sadly,
the late) OSDC is here:
http://www.osdc.org.il/2006/html/fuse.sxi
</plug>
Gilad
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