sshfs mounting problems

[Ubi]

One of the great things about bubba is that it can aggregate remote SMB and NFS mounts and present them in a nice friendly way to the LAN. However, as both NFS and SMB are unpleasant to run remote, SSHfs is a good alternative. So I apt-get installed sshfs. However I keep on getting the same error upon mounting an SSH share:
"fusermount: mount failed: Invalid argument"

Searchin for this error on google indicates it is common but many problems can trigger it so it's not easy to debug. One possible solution comes from this blog post. It suggests using backports because sshfs does not work properly on Sarge. I'm kinda afraid that starting on backports will give lure me into dependency hell. So what to do: use the backports? Wait for the upgrade to Etch (when??) or does anyone know another solution?

Thanks
Ubi


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Fuse, Makedev et Debian sarge

Sous Debian sarge, il y a un paquet fuse mais il est prévu pour fonctionner avec un noyau 2.4. Si on veut utiliser un noyau plus récent (comme un 2.6.19 ou .20), il est impossible de monter un filesystem FUSE : on obtient un message d'erreur comme celui-là : "fusermount: mount failed: Invalid argument".

C'est pour cela que j'ai fait un backport de la version etch pour sarge. Fuse dépendant de makedev, j'ai backporté ce paquet aussi.

Tous les paquets se trouvent dans mon dépôt Debian sarge.

Peut-être les derniers backports pour sarge
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[tor]

Hi Ubi,

The reason for this failing is most likely due to the lack of fuse support in the kernel. Unfortunately that module is not included in our modules package. Not quite sure why.

/Tor

[Ubi]

No I'm afraid that's not it, as fuse (which is co-installed with sshfs) brings along a module that is added to the kernel with modprobe. This actually works without any problems (except I also needed to install the modules package).

Any other suggestions? Getting SSHfs to run will strongly improve things for me. Any chance you'll be supporting it in future versions?

thanks
Ubi

[tor]

Sounds a bit strange. Are you sure you got the module? We don't ship the same version of the kernel as standard Debian Sarge so any modules from any Debian package will most likely not work.

/Tor