On my Ubuntu 16.04 machine I can execute the following command
sshfs -o sshfs_debug -p 22 myuser@myserver:/homes/user /home/user/test -C -o allow_other
This will mount the remote directory /home/user on my local machine as /home/user/test.
I was wondering if this can be done using fstab in some way. Of course the mount must delayed because network will not be available on reboot.
The thing is that I don't even get to that hurdle. The above command is simple enough but when one tries to add that to fstab this add a lot of complexity for some reason
myusers@myserver:/homes/user /home/user/test fuse.sshfs comment=sshfs,defaults,transform_symlinks,users,exec,auto,allow_other,_netdev,delay_connect,uid=1034,gid=100 0 0
There are a number of examples on the internet but none work. The above command also doesn't work. The share is mounted without errors but if I try to access this only produces error message example is
myuser:~]↥ $ ls test
ls: cannot access 'test': Input/output error
[myuser:~]↥ 2 $
Is sshfs used in fstab? Should that work? Are there alternatives for sshfs? It doensn't to be stable yet. Documentation and examples vary in many ways.
To troubleshoot look in system log. I ended up with the following entry. I think you need to always specify the identity file
myuser@myserver:/homes/user /home/user/test fuse.sshfs _netdev,user,idmap=user,transform_symlinks,identityfile=/home/myuser/.ssh/id_rsa,allow_other 0 2