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From: Ed Maste <emaste@phaedrus.sandvine.ca>
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On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:32:18PM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:

> Linux has an extremely neat solution for this (sshfs) but I don't know of
> anything comparable in the BSD world. sshfs uses 'Fuse', a plug-in
> architecture which allows filesystems to run in userland. I believe it makes
> an sftp connection to the remote host, and then exposes it as if it were a
> real filesystem.

In fact, FreeBSD's got Fuse & sshfs as well.  Csaba Henk did the port
as a Google SoC project.  See <http://fuse4bsd.creo.hu/> and
/usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs* .

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Ed Maste
Sandvine Incorporated