I've recently discovered sshfs and learned about needing to have FUSE as a dependency for OS X, which spiked by interest. The code looks very clean and easy to understand, so thanks for that!
Is there any guide/course you would recommend for the introduction to FUSE? It looks like all you have is to provide implementations to certains functions your filesystem will use but it's hard without knowing the details(ex. I wouldn't know I had to implement readdir without your code, and so on)
I've used sshfs in the past and I know the original authors stopped maintaining it though others took over. I did find the network error handling wasn't the greatest. Like it would unmount the fuse mount due to network error and I'd be writing files to the local mount directory silently until space filled up. Perhaps its a Linux specific issue or I've used the wrong options though.
To be honest, I knew about the speed limitations of sshfs already, so I typically use rsync to work with large files. This way, I wouldn't write the data locally even if the connection fails. I've checked the github repo and it looks like there are a number of issues related to network timeout that hasn't been addressed for a long time[1]. However, I mostly used it on OS X, so my experience might be different from yours
Thanks for the info as well, I was under the impression sshfs was under active development (:
[1]https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs/issues/77
