Re: [sshfs] timed/counted reconnect

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

> sshfs 1.4 contains a reconnect feature. I could use that feature for 
> network load balancing, if it had forced reconnect based on time or byte 
> count. I have a server with multiple IPs and I would like to multiplex 
> traffic among those IPs. Any of these policies would be useful:
> 
> 	- reconnect after x bytes of down+up traffic
> 	- reconnect after 5 minutes of active traffic
> 
> sshfs could do round-robin on different hostnames/ips, but it is not 
> necessary because I have a port-forwarding tool that does network load 
> balancing for multiple IPs:
> 
> 	http://zakalwe.fi/~shd/foss/shd-tcp-tools
> 
> My current scheme uses netcat. sshfs would be much better.

It should not be too hard to implement.  But note, that any
outstanding requests and/or open files are lost on reconnection.

Miklos