[sshfs] symbolic link

[Alex H. <a.h...@he...>]

Hello,

I've been using forms of shfs for some time now. Now I have fuse-sshfs installed.
I always found it very handy not to need ftp or something else to be able to access a remote system 
easily.

Today i was working on a project using subversion. I wanted to export the project to a sshfs-mointed 
point. The project included symlinks and upon exporting i got some errors.
First i thought it had to do with some program used for subversion, but soon i figured out creating 
a symlink could have some issues.

Example:

mountpoint: ~/mnt/remote
mountpath: user@remoteaddr:path

when i create a symlink like: ln -sf ~/mnt/remote/source ~/mnt/remote/target I can get several errors:
- File or Directory does not exist (on targetfile)
- Operation not permitted
- once i got something about too many symlink levels (which could be caused by the subversion 
related program)

sshclient:  OpenSSH_4.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7f 22 Mar 2005    (FC4)
sshserver:  OpenSSH_4.2p1 FreeBSD-20050903, OpenSSL 0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004 (with HPN patch)

Copying a whole directory, including symlinks, over to the remote point doesn't cause any problems.

I don't really need the symlinks, so I took them out of the repository. But I'm wondering whether 
this problem is known or that it's perhaps a local problem. Anyway I know what can cause a problem 
now and will work around that. Hopefully this is of some use to you.

Regards,
Alex Haan