fuse: invalid argument, MacOS

Question

I've been mounting a Linux filesystem on my Mac successfully with the following syntax:

sshfs -o allow_other, defer_permissions username@remotelinux:/ ~/mnt/mountpoint

Starting yesterday, this fails with

fuse: invalid argument '/Users/macusername/mnt/mountpoint'

I found this suggestion, but it hasn't helped, although I'm not 100% sure I'm pointing to the correct rsa file. But note that this failure just started. I've rebooted both computers: same failure.

The mount point appears to exist. If I try to unmount it, I'm told that it is not mounted.

Any hints on solutions or debugging?

Answer 1

Removing "allow_other" fixed this. Here's what works:

sshfs -o defer_permissions username@remotelinux:/ ~/mnt/mountpoint

Sometimes the connection is lost, and when re-established this statement does not work. The mount point is left in some kind of limbo. In such cases unmount the file system

umount ~/mnt/mountpoint