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FUSE and SSHFS

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FUSE and SSHFS

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- [Instructor] SSH lets us connect to systems remotely, and it allows us to use SFTP and SCP to transfer files, as well. But if you're working with a lot of files on a remote system or need to transfer files frequently, SFTP and SCP can get a little bit tedious. SSHFS allows us to mount an SSH connection in the file system using SFTP, so the files in the remote server act as if they're local files. This can make working with those files a lot easier. SSHFS is an example of a FUSE, or Filesystem in Userspace. FUSEs work by interacting with a FUSE kernel module, which allows a program that's in user space to provide date to be presented in the file system. This allows us to use file systems that don't have kernel support. FUSE is available on Unix and Unix-like systems, so you'll find it on Linux, on the BSDs and on macOS, but not on Windows. I'll install SSHFS here on my Ubuntu system with apt install sshfs. Then I'll…

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