Mapping an EC2 Instance to a Local Drive on OSX

http://falicon.com/post/10203037945/mapping-an-ec2-instance-to-a-local-drive-on-mac

by uptown • 15 years ago

59 24 15 years ago

I would really recommend against using MacFUSE if you're not using Lion. I've had MacFUSE hang my system on a daily basis until I figured out the problem.

mlacitation2• 15 years ago

What was the problem?

I use MacFuse on Snow Leopard daily at work and home and the worst I've ever seen was TextMate move slow when I woke from sleep (and the drive wasn't mounted)

pagekalisedown2• 15 years ago

Building code, doing a "find .", any type of disk-heavy operation was like playing russian roulette.

hemancuso2• 15 years ago

I recommend using ExpanDrive [I write it] - it works great on Lion and does some aggressive caching to make this a much more usable solution.

sneak• 15 years ago

As a paid ExpanDrive user, I second this. It's good software.

falicon5• 15 years ago

Yeah - I had lots of troubles with MacFUSE in the past as well...so far (only a couple of days really) I've had no problems with OSXFuse though.

zmitri2• 15 years ago

Cool. I've been testing out an app called ExpandDrive which does something similar but it hangs like crazy if network bandwidth goes up.

derekorgan• 15 years ago

You can also use Transmit to do this.

zmitri2• 15 years ago

ps. Started using Transmit and ReMate plugin and everything runs much more smoothly. Thanks for the advice.

Titanous• 15 years ago

Why not just use rsync or scp?

falicon5• 15 years ago

I didn't find any Mac clients that I liked for either of these approaches...and what I wanted was a really simple way to be able to edit files on my EC2 instance using TextMate...this solution works really well for me to do just that (though there could be much better ways to accomplish this that I just didn't bother to research/figure out).

ConstantineXVI• 15 years ago

I use Cyberduck[1] for that; just hit Edit and it opens up the file in your editor, syncs back when you save.

[1] http://cyberduck.ch/

yesbabyyes2• 15 years ago

Is this over ssh? Couldn't you use s3fs for this?

falicon5• 15 years ago

I think s3fs is more for mounting a S3 bucket as a drive...what I wanted to do was access the files on my EC2 instance as local files (EC2 is basically like a remote computer, S3 is just remote storage).

That being said, you might be able to use s3fs to accomplish the same thing...I just wrote this up because it's the solution that I use...could be (probably is) better ways to accomplish this...

yesbabyyes2• 15 years ago

Sorry, my bad. I got ec2 and s3 all mixed up. Thanks for clarifying!

emehrkay• 15 years ago

I use this version of macfuse for lion

http://wualablog.blogspot.com/2011/07/wuala-for-os-x-lion.ht...

hemancuso2• 15 years ago

You can also do this on Windows with ExpanDrive [http://www.expandrive.com]

chow• 15 years ago

Nothing revolutionary or EC2-specific here. The article could well be titled "Mounting an SSH host on OS X using OSXFuse".

ajross• 15 years ago

Apparently sshfs is news enough in the Mac community that it seems like a Cool Trick instead of a standard tool.

falicon5• 15 years ago

fair point...

simonhamp• 15 years ago

Transmit

guelo• 15 years ago

For Windows there is Dokan, a library similar to FUSE in Linux. There is an implementation of SSHFS for windows which works pretty well. http://dokan-dev.net/en

Mapping an EC2 Instance to a Local Drive on OSX

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