Emacs 22.1 Tramp issue

[Andras Simon]

On 7/22/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
>
> One expected oddity of sshfs is that if users and groups don't match, the
> names displayed by "ls -l" will be nonsense.
>
> Another oddity is that inodes are assigned as files are encountered.  The
> SFTP protocol doesn't provide the inode number, so sshfs invents them as
> needed.  Thus, each time a remote directory is mounted, inode numbers
> depend on the order that files are used.  Hard links in the remote
> directory can't be respected.  "du" doesn't give correct results.
>
> If I think of it as a more convenient sftp then it's fine.

Given that one can create/edit remote files and use them without
downloading them  (one can even watch movies from an sshfs-mounted
fs), I think  it's rather more than that. It's much closer to nfs than
to sftp.

Andras