test forks of MacFUSE for use with sshfs on OS X Lion #1495

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tahoe-lafs · 2011-08-21T23:15:04Z

davidsarah commented

2011-08-21 23:15:04 +00:00

MacFUSE has apparently splintered into three or four forks, none of which work properly with Tahoe on OS X 10.7 (Lion). See wiki/SftpFrontend#sshfsonMacOSX for details.

This ticket can be closed when we are able to access a Tahoe filesystem reliably over sshfs on Lion, and have documented how to do that.

MacFUSE has apparently splintered into three or four forks, none of which work properly with Tahoe on OS X 10.7 (Lion). See [wiki/SftpFrontend#sshfsonMacOSX](wiki/SftpFrontend#sshfsonMacOSX) for details. This ticket can be closed when we are able to access a Tahoe filesystem reliably over sshfs on Lion, and have documented how to do that.

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davidsarah commented

2011-08-21 23:18:52 +00:00

Attachment sshfs-debug-output.txt (12407 bytes) added

output of sshfs with -o sshfs_debug, using the Tuxera 2.2.1 fork of MacFUSE. At the end, the sshfs process exits unexpectedly and the filesystem is unmounted.

**Attachment** sshfs-debug-output.txt (12407 bytes) added output of sshfs with -o sshfs_debug, using the Tuxera 2.2.1 fork of MacFUSE. At the end, the sshfs process exits unexpectedly and the filesystem is unmounted.

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davidsarah commented

2011-08-21 23:19:55 +00:00

tarcieri, what was the exact sshfs command line for attachment:sshfs-debug-output.txt?

davidsarah commented

2011-08-22 01:51:55 +00:00

According to https://trac.macports.org/ticket/29917#comment:48, FUSE4X has already fixed the stability bugs with sshfs and with 64-bit kernels. Also, FUSE4X is forked from a more recent version of Linux FUSE then OSXFUSE, and seems to intend to stay closer to upstream in future (this is supported by the revision histories so far). OSXFUSE seems to have a lone developer (Benjamin Fleischer); although FUSE4X also has one primary developer (Anatol Pomozov), he appears to have more help. OSXFUSE does have the technical advantage of working with existing binaries of filesystems compiled for MacFUSE, but that is liable to cause as many problems as it solves. I'm betting on FUSE4X.

According to <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/29917#comment:48>, FUSE4X has already fixed the stability bugs with sshfs and with 64-bit kernels. Also, FUSE4X is forked from a more recent version of Linux FUSE then OSXFUSE, and seems to intend to stay closer to upstream in future (this is supported by the revision histories so far). OSXFUSE seems to have a lone developer (Benjamin Fleischer); although FUSE4X also has one primary developer (Anatol Pomozov), he appears to have more help. OSXFUSE does have the technical advantage of working with existing binaries of filesystems compiled for MacFUSE, but that is liable to cause as many problems as it solves. I'm betting on FUSE4X.

zooko commented

2011-11-03 04:04:32 +00:00

Glyph Lefkowitz recommends FUSE4X.

davidsarah commented

2012-03-27 21:52:40 +00:00

(wiki/SftpFrontend) was updated to reflect that FUSE4X seems to work: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/SftpFrontend?action=diff&version=77&old_version=75

What more, if anything, do we need to close this ticket?

(wiki/SftpFrontend) was updated to reflect that FUSE4X seems to work: <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/SftpFrontend?action=diff&version=77&old_version=75> What more, if anything, do we need to close this ticket?

daira commented

2013-05-03 16:57:19 +00:00

http://fuse4x.github.io/ currently says: "Fuse4X has been merged to OSXFUSE project. Consider switching to OSXFUSE for a new development."

So we need to test OSXFUSE (a.k.a. FUSE for OS X), and then update wiki/SftpFrontend to recommend that if it works.

<http://fuse4x.github.io/> currently says: "Fuse4X has been merged to [OSXFUSE](http://osxfuse.github.io/) project. Consider switching to OSXFUSE for a new development." So we need to test [OSXFUSE](http://osxfuse.github.io/) (a.k.a. FUSE for OS X), and then update [wiki/SftpFrontend](wiki/SftpFrontend) to recommend that if it works.

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daira commented

2013-05-03 17:02:49 +00:00

See also https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/fuse4x/Pi55U_K4HgU.

See also <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/fuse4x/Pi55U_K4HgU>.

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