How to put a folder tree in cache over sshfs

Question

I want to work from home via SSH.

I run Ubuntu. I have installed sshfs and mounted my files locally. However, working on local files is too slow, as sshfs fetches files each time it wants to read it.

How can I put everything into cache ?

Answer 1

Use the cache timeout parameter and set it to a big value (several hours) :

sshfs -C -o cache_timeout=80000 myself@work:~/files_at_work ~/my_home

Then, use this script to fetch all the files and put them into the cache :

#!/bin/bash
for file in `find .`  
do
    echo "$file"
    cat $file > /dev/null
done

Answer 2

I am working on a generic fuse caching filesystem called catfs which can be used to cache sshfs data. Happy to hear more feedback!