Re: Symlinks not accessible when mounting with sshfs

On 27/07/26 at 16:51, nwe wrote:
> I just ran into something like this recently. I sshfs mounted remote 
> directory /home/remote-user locally on /home/local-user/mnt
> 
> 
> A symlink in the remote directory pointing at /usr/lib/my-app appeared 
> broken. I assumed this was a result of the symlink pointing outside of 
> the shared path.
> 
> As I only temporarily needed to access it, my quick and dirty fix was to 
> copy the remote small directory /usr/lib/my-app into /home/remote-user/ 
> my-app then I could easily access those files over sshfs. After I was 
> finished, I deleted /home/remote-user/my-app
> 

This isn't viable for me, I use sshfs to mount the root filesystem of a 
device for backup purpose, I cannot deal with copying a directory from 
/etc to other directory.

Kind regards,