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Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2009–2024), in 9 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Remote changes don't notify the mount and git is slow over WANUnreviewed
20092026- Remote file changes don't notify local mount; git operations are very slow over WAN2019-03-15
- Git commands are very laggy on the mounted drive and mounting must be managed manually2018-03-17
- Mounted remote filesystem is very slow to work with2016-08-03
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 11 complaints
- Navigating complex remote filesystem hierarchy in a Finder window is not fun2024-03-13
- Listing a 100-item directory takes over a minute or silently fails2022-06-20
- Mounts hang frequently on transient network failures, making it annoying to use2022-06-20
- Calls sshfs buggy and unusable on Mac, so the user gave up2022-06-20
- Remote file changes don't notify local mount; git operations are very slow over WAN2019-03-15
- Git commands are very laggy on the mounted drive and mounting must be managed manually2018-03-17
- Mounted remote filesystem is very slow to work with2016-08-03
- Hangs irretrievably on flaky connections, taking down programs using it2012-02-02
- Editing files over sshfs gets saves ruined by latency and lost work when connections drop2011-12-17
- After suspend and resume, desktop apps hang indefinitely on blocking syscalls2010-11-24
- Users need repeated help setting it up and then lose their files after mistakes2009-01-16