Now that FUSE (fuse.sf.net) support is available in the mainline kernel (and the libraries and headers are in knoppix 5.0), it's almost trivial to include sshfs with knoppix. Sshfs allows you to mount remote systems as directories over ssh easily. To mount my home directory on my office machine in a directory called "office", I just type as any user:

mkdir office
sshfs [email protected]: office

(Try it! http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html)

This is so great, because I don't need to rely on any local storage, and I don't need any setup on the remote machine. Because it uses FUSE, the SSHFS installation is only two files totaling about 50kb (stripped) and compiles out of the box on Knoppix 5.0. Can we get it? How can I help?

Tom 7