fuse and sshfs RPMs for Scientific Linux SL 4.x
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                   (re)packaged by Paul A. Rombouts
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SSHFS is a tool for mounting a remote filesystem transparently and securely over
a ssh connection. SSHFS is based on FUSE, the Filesystem in USErspace framework.
The source code and further info on fuse and sshfs can be obtained from:

    http://fuse.sourceforge.net/
    http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html

I have tried the fuse-sshfs RPM from Fedora-Extras on a machine running Fedora
Core 4 and was pleasantly surprised with the performance and ease of use. You
can mount as an ordinary user any filesystem on another machine accessible via
ssh and work with the files as if they were on your local machine. Read and
write performance with sshfs is much faster than the alternatives that I have
tried so far.

I have adapted the RPMs that I had downloaded from the Fedora-Extras repository
(http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/SRPMS/) and rebuilt
them on a Scientific Linux 4.2 installation. The most important change that I
had to make was adding a fuse kernel-module package, because unlike the kernel
that ships with Fedora Core 4, the SL 4.x kernel does not have built-in fuse
support.

The packages that I have built are available for download from this directory:

    http://www.phys.uu.nl/~rombouts/fuse/

To check the signatures on these packages you will need a copy of my public GPG
key which you can get from the same directory or from a public key server.
If you can't find a ready-built kernel-module package matching your kernel, try
building one yourself based on the recompile instructions described in
http://rpm.livna.org/kernel-modules.html .

After installing the packages don't forget to read README.fedora and README.sl
in the directory /usr/share/doc/fuse-2.5.3/.

Enjoy!