Well, After some reading, moved by a slight contempt towards good old NFS, I decided to give FUSE a try.
Looks like thet on server-side, nothing has to be done, if a ssh server.
On client side:
- install sshfs support with
aptitude install sshfs
- enable automatic fuse module loading at boot adding fuse (just that!) to /etc/modules
- enable users to mount adding them to the fuse group (
adduser <usrename> fuse)
To mount a remote filesystem:
$ mkdir ~/mnt
$ sshfs user@host:/dir/to/mount ~/mnt
answer with
user@host password when asked. Enjoy.
To unmount: