shfsmount - mount remote volumes using (secure) shell connection.

shfsmount [options] [[user@]hostname[:root]] mount_point shfsmount [-hV]

The shfsmount is a mount-support utility which makes possible to mount remote volumes to the local file system tree through simple shell connection. It uses ssh (or any other program) connection to remote servers. It requires shfs.o kernel module to be loaded. If you set suid bit on shfsmount you enable ANY USER to mount remote dirs. User must be owner (or member of group) of mount_point and must have write access for that directory.

-u, --cmd-user=user

execute command (ssh) as this user (root only)

-c, --cmd=COMMAND

command to connect to remote side (see below)

-P, --port=PORT

connect to this port

-p, --persistent

make connection persistent (broken connection is re-established)

-t, --type=TYPE

connection server type (currently only "perl" and "shell" are supported)

-s, --stable

dereference symbolic links (if possible)

-o, --options

mount options (see below)

-n, --nomtab

do not update /etc/mtab

-v, --verbose

print debug messages; more options increases verbosity; this affects kernel module too

-V, --version

print version number

-h, --help

print usage information

user

log in using this user name

hostname

specify remote host

root

remote directory to become root of the new mounted tree

cachesize=N

set read-ahead and write-back cache size in pages, page size is 4KB on i386, 0 = disable filecache (default is 32, i.e. 128KB)

cachemax=N

set maximum number of files cached at once (default is 10)

preserve

preserve uid/gid (root only)

ttl=TIME

time to live (sec) of cached directory entries

uid=USER

owner of all files/dirs on mounted file system (root only)

gid=GROUP

group of all files/dirs on mounted file system (root only)

rmode=mode

root dir mode (default is 700)

suid, dev

see mount(8) (root only).

ro, rw, nosuid, nodev, exec, noexec, user, users

see mount(8).

cmd-user, cmd, port, persistent, type, stable

see above Options in mount_options list are separated by comma without spaces between items (just like in mount(8)). %u %h %P in COMMAND are substituted by user, host and port respectively.

Mount errors will be written through syslog(3). Stderr is redirected to /dev/null unless -v option is given (may be useful if you cannot connect to remote side). On success, 0 is returned.

Nothing.

Date of remote file/dir may not be shown correctly (+- 1 day). "stable" symlinks option may not work on OSF1. Please report bugs [with diff -u patches, of course ;-)] to <qiq@ucw.cz>

The simplest version (mount home dir of user at host):

shfsmount user@host /mnt/shfs

To specify remote directory:

shfsmount user@host:/tmp /mnt/shfs

To specify another port:

shfsmount -P 2222 user@host /mnt/shfs

To specify another ssh option:

shfsmount --cmd="ssh -c blowfish %u@%h /bin/bash" user@host:/tmp /mnt/shfs/

To make mount survive temporary connection outage (reconnect mode):

shfsmount --persistent user@host /mnt/shfs

Longer transfers? Increase cache size (here 1MB cache per file (256*4KB)):

shfsmount user@host /mnt/shfs -o cachesize=256

To enable symlink resolution:

shfsmount -s user@host /mnt/shfs

To preserve uid (gid) (NFS replace mode :-)):

shfsmount root@host /mnt/shfs -o preserve,rmode=755

To see what is wrong (forces kernel debug output too):

shfsmount -vvv user@host /mnt/shfs

shfsumount(8) , mount(8) , ssh(1)

Zemljanka core team (Johanka, Dan, Qiq)
Miroslav Spousta <qiq@ucw.cz>