[vladvasiliu]

Are SSH mounts natively supported on Linux ?

In my case I use sshfs, which also uses FUSE and is a "3rd party tool". Is that more reasonable than osxfuse? (Honest question, I'm unfamiliar with the latter)

edit:

sshfs is "unsupported": "However, at present SSHFS does not have any active, regular contributors, and there are a number of known issues (see the bugtracker)."

https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs#development-status

[Macha]

gvfs-sftp counts as native to me if you're using a gnome desktop. The author is using a fullfat gnome distro like Ubuntu, so it's probably even preinstalled.

[vladvasiliu]

I wasn't familiar with that (I don't use gnome). After a quick lookup, it seems it doesn't even use FUSE - but it does have a "fuse bridge" for interoperability with other apps.

Apparently this supports a bunch of other "virtual filesystems", like Google Drive, as well.

Since it's part of Gnome, I guess it's fair to compare this with MacOS and consider it "woking out of the box".

[prmoustache]

It is, I have been doing diff of files from different remote machines using meld and gnome gvfs mounting for years. It works out of the box and is really mature.

Only thing app that wasn't working well with gvfs was libreoffice. I don't know if it is still the case but it refused to handle a file gvfs mounted on my NAS regardless of the protocol (ssh, smb, nfs).

[usrn]

Everything on Linux that isn't part of the "Linux-utils" package is a third party tool. (I guess GNU packages are "second party.")