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Mounting Filesystems

Connect to remote GhostFS servers

Mounting Filesystems

Basic Mount

ghostfs mount /mnt/remote --host server.local --port 3444 --user alice --token secrettoken123

Mount Options

  • --host — Server hostname or IP
  • --port — Server port (default: 3444)
  • --user — Username
  • --token — Authentication token

Performance Tuning

GhostFS includes caching for performance. Tune for your workload:

ghostfs mount /mnt/remote \
  --host server.local \
  --user alice \
  --token xxx \
  --write-back 64 \
  --read-ahead 8 \
  --prefetch-workers 75

Unmounting

# Standard unmount
umount /mnt/remote

# Force unmount if busy
umount -f /mnt/remote

# macOS
diskutil unmount /mnt/remote

Automounting with fstab

Add to /etc/fstab:

ghostfs#alice@server.local:/  /mnt/remote  fuse  user,noauto,token=secrettoken123  0  0

Then mount with:

mount /mnt/remote

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