I am trying to figure out if it is possible to permanetly mount a remote folder using sftp, but no luck since it seems sshfs would be needed. There are slack packages for sshfs, but it seems to be together with fuse and I am a bit afraid installing it would interfere with the default fuse comes with unraid.

 

Does someone know how this would be possible?

 

Thank you in advance!

I would like to do the opposite. I want the unRAID server to be the sftp client and mount a remote share on a remote server.

In the past working with other Linux systems, using ssh as a filesystem protocol is bad news.  It can be done but brings with it unreliable results.  Most Sys Admins avoid it at all costs (including this one).  There are so many other proven methods to gain access to your filesystem.

In the past working with other Linux systems, using ssh as a filesystem protocol is bad news.  It can be done but brings with it unreliable results.  Most Sys Admins avoid it at all costs (including this one).  There are so many other proven methods to gain access to your filesystem.

 

What would be those other proven methods?

or you can just use Alien's Slack package, it's pretty recent.

 

This one is also packed together with fuse. I don't want any package to overwrite default fuse. That would be dangerous.

or you can just use Alien's Slack package, it's pretty recent.

 

This one is also packed together with fuse. I don't want any package to overwrite default fuse. That would be dangerous.

No, it's sshfs only.  It's just called "sshfs-fuse".  It installs a single binary: /usr/bin/sshfs

 

Thank you! Based on some the quick and rough first tests it looks like working quite well!