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sshfs-fuse package

can't mount sshfs in single-thread mode through fstab

Bug #213644 reported by Bogdan Butnaru
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: sshfs

Hello! Reporting this on up-to-date Hardy, but it applies to all prior versions.

Fuse allows mounting fuse filesystems through fstab. Various options can be passed through to the mount application. In the case of SSHFS, this is /sbin/mount.sshfs.

The problem is that it's not possible to give the option to start in single-threaded mode. This can be started manually through the sshfs binary using the "-s" option; however, fstab-usable options can only be given through the "-o option_name" method. SSHFS has many such options, but none for single-threaded mode.

Since multi-threaded execution causes some serious bugs (e.g. bug #137514) it would be very useful to be able to give this option in fstab.

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

Changed in sshfs-fuse:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Incomplete
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Bogdan Butnaru (bogdanb) wrote :

As far as I can tell, yes, you still can't start sshfs single-threaded through fstab.

(However I don't have 9.04, yet.)

Philip Muškovac (yofel)
Changed in sshfs-fuse (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

bug #137514 was fixed 2008-10-25. As many changes have been made to sshfs since you reported this issue, could you tell us if it still exists for you? If it does exist, can you please give simple instructions to reproduce it, step by step?

Changed in sshfs-fuse (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Bogdan Butnaru (bogdanb) wrote :

As far as I can tell, this still exists. I’m not sure how to give “reproduce” instructions for something that’s not possible (i.e., missing feature).

Observe that you can call, eg, “sshfs -s -o some_option server:path local/path”. The “-s” tells sshfs to disable multi-threaded operation, and the “-o some_option” are what it calls “mount options”. The latter can be specified in fstab, the former can’t.

Changed in sshfs-fuse (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

Thanks for the additional information, which allowed me to understand this issue. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here.

I have sent this upstream by message to 'fuse-sshfs <email address hidden>' and we will now await a response.

Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

Changed in sshfs-fuse (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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