[sshfs] sshfs fails in NFS-mounted home

[Daniel B. <bo...@tr...>]

Hello,

my coworker is working with a desktop computer which has /home mounted via NFS 
from the local file server.

For some project I wrote a script which mounts a directory from our web server 
with sshfs. That works without problems on my computer as sshfs used to do.

But on his computer it fails and leaves the mount point in an unusable state 
until next reboot. I cannot paste the error message here because he's not in 
the office at the moment. I expect you're familiar with that issue. If 
necessary I'll supply the message later.

Unfortunately I could find a solution which would allow him to mount sshfs in 
his /home. I tried [1] but it didn't help. However, I am pretty sure that it's 
a problem with NFS because any mount point outside /home works, e.g. a folder 
in /tmp (this is not a possible solution).

Can you explain what the actual problem with NFS mount points is and what we 
could do about it? If there is no solution at this time can we expect one to 
appear soon?

Please send replies with CC to me because I didn't subscribe to the list.


With kind regards
Daniel Böhmer

[1] http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/sshfs-mount-in-nfs-home-directory-
different-user-ids-maybe

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