[AVFS] Fuse / AVFS / LuFS / 2.6 kernel?

Hi all,

I'm sorry to be asking such basic questions, but I
haven't been able to find much information through the
project site, documentation, and/or Google.

All I'm trying to do is be able to mount remote
(Solaris/Linux) filesystems on my linux laptop via
ssh.  I've tried LuFS and ran into an odd problem
where everything mounted correctly but only every 3rd
attempt to access the filesystem was successful. After
working with that quite a while I decided to check out
any alternatives.  That's when I found AVFS/Fuse.

First, information on my client here:
- linux 2.6.4 (custom kernel with Coda compiled as a
module)
- Debian unstable (installed from Knoppix 3.3
2004-02-16)
- Fuse 1.1 downloaded from sf.net
- KDE 3.2.1 desktop (is there a way to do what I want
with KIO-Slaves?)

Thorugh my research so far, I've gathered that Fuse
and AVFS aren't tied together, but I'm not sure how
exactly to accomplish my goal.  I've tried installing
Fuse and then using the example, but must be doing
something simple wrong there because it just hangs
(I've tried running 'fusermount /mnt/hda5
example/fusexmp -d' and just 'example/fusexmp
/mnt/test -d' from the /tmp/fuse-1.1 build dir as
specified in the README).  

I've tried installing AVFS from CVS as described in
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=32283&max_rows=25&style=nested&viewmonth=200403
but get an error that /overlay is not created.  I do
have the fuse and coda modules loaded as shown:

[email protected]:/tmp/fuse-1.1$ lsmod
fuse                   24208  0
coda                   39396  0
[email protected]:/tmp/avfs/fuse$ ./avfsd /overlay
fusermount: Bad mount point /overlay: No such file or
directory

Can someone please tell or point me to the best
solution for remotely mounting my many servers'
filesystems (if it's not AVFS/Fuse)?

Thanks,
    Geoff Weber


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