Make the mounted box show up in the Finder sidebar on OS X

[pallih]

This is possible if the -0 local option is added to the mount script:

exec "mkdir -p #{path} && sshfs #{boxName}@#{boxServer}.scraperwiki.com:. #{path} -ovolname=#{boxName} -oBatchMode=yes -o local -oworkaround=rename,noappledouble",{timeout: 5000}, (err, stdout, stderr) ->

There is a discussion on this here:

https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/FAQ

It might not be wise to do this on other operating systems, but I have no way of testing that.

So this is basically a feature request...

[zarino]

Cool! I originally turned this off to avoid the creation of .Trashes
and Spotlight index files on the remote box. (Just as I set rsync to
exclude .DS_Store files when performing a swbox push)

Perhaps the -o local behaviour could be an optional argument for
swbox mount, eg: swbox mount --local ? Or would that confuse
matters?

I'm just wary of making -o local the default, if it'll result in
spurious files finding their way onto users' boxes.

[pallih]

Yeah - an option would be good... There is another option to OSXFUSE (apart from the noappledouble that we added) 'noapplexattr' (from here: https://code.google.com/p/macfuse/wiki/OPTIONS):

noapplexattr
This option makes MacFUSE deny all types of access to extended attributes that begin with the "com.apple." prefix. On Mac OS X 10.5.x, this is the preferred option if you wish to disallow entities such as resource forks and Finder information.

Haven't tested it.

My short tests earlier with the -o local option and noappledouble did not turn up any .Trashes files. What I did was mount the box. Create files and folders with the finder and then delete them.

[pwaller]

Hi there, apologies we didn't fix this nearer the time but we're not actively developing this any more and we don't have time to look into this.