Operating Systems 2014F: Tutorial 9

This tutorial is not yet finalized.

• apt-get install sshfs
• mount remote ssh directory locally
• do file operations on directory
• unmount, see it go away
• apt-get install openssh-server
• ssh to local box
• sshfs to local box, do a "loopback" mount
• dd a large file to local drive. Do same thing over sshfs. Which is faster?
• hard link files locally, look at link counts
• hard link files over sshfs, look at link counts
• go into directory locally as root, look around. now do the same to mounted version. What do you see?
• look at inodes in local and remote system. How do they compare?