Re: [Mailsync-list] Using mailsync with ssh

[Holger K. <hol...@gm...>]

>>> See http://shfs.sf.net
>> Thanks, that's certainly a possibility, I'd looked for utilities like
>> this before but not found them.
>>
> It's more than a possibility, I have FUSE and sshfs installed and
> working already, amazingly simple for something like that.  I did a
> quick timing check to see how slow it is compared with a straight file
> copy using rsync (no existing files so it really was a copy):-
> 
>     rsync:      3m 48.661s
>     sshfs:     10m  2.824s
> 
> That's not half bad really, it's around 2.5 times as slow (this was
> copying about 32Mb of maildir hierarchy, e.g. lots of small files).

If you do such a comparison, you should keep in mind that standard ssh has a bandwith limit due to its 64K Window size. See
http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/

So if higher speed is  needed a patched sshd could help.