Hello all,
As a long-time TextMate user I'm well aware of the issues working with projects on remote filesystems -- I have been doing it day in and day out for just over three years now, using different combinations of tools. Like many of you, I've used Transmit for quick single-file edits and MacFusion/sshfs for heavier remote work for the past year or more, and they work well enough to be productive, but with well-known frustrations (latency, connection resilience).
Lately I'm using ExpanDrive (http://www.magnetk.com/expandrive), which just launched officially. Same transport (SSH/SFTP), but with very aggressive caching and intelligent connection management under the hood. Together, they make it *way* snappier than sshfs on even high-latency links, and allow your mounts to stay live on finicky or intermittent connections, even as you sleep your laptop one place and wake it hours later on an entirely different network.
It's a from-scratch new filesystem, not just a GUI for sshfs (though it does use the MacFUSE core), so its performance and stability are quite unlike what you may be used to. Of particular note (and this was a goal in development), the caching works well enough to largely eliminate the TextMate project focus lag problems we're all so familiar with by now, even over long-distance connections.
(Full disclosure: I am tangentially connected with this project.)
I think some of you will quite like it. -jrk
On 26/02/2008, at 5:02 AM, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley wrote:
Lately I'm using ExpanDrive (http://www.magnetk.com/expandrive), which just launched officially. Same transport (SSH/SFTP), but with very aggressive caching and intelligent connection management under the hood. Together, they make it *way* snappier than sshfs on even high-latency links, and allow your mounts to stay live on finicky or intermittent connections, even as you sleep your laptop one place and wake it hours later on an entirely different network.
Downloading atm. If it works like it says it does ... Best. Thing. Ever.
LD.
Looks nice, as a mac user I've envied SFTPDrive for a while. I've just one question for you (or anyone willing to help). How do you keep TextMate from removing read access (except for the connected users) on every file saved? This makes quick editing of web-accessible files pretty time consuming from TM. I don't have this problem with TextMate+ [MacFuse|NFS|AFP|WebDAV], just TextMate+ExpanDrive. I also don't have this problem with [Dashcode|TextEdit|Xcode]+ExpanDrive.
thanks john
On 2008/02/25, at 12:02, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley wrote:
Hello all,
As a long-time TextMate user I'm well aware of the issues working with projects on remote filesystems -- I have been doing it day in and day out for just over three years now, using different combinations of tools. Like many of you, I've used Transmit for quick single-file edits and MacFusion/sshfs for heavier remote work for the past year or more, and they work well enough to be productive, but with well-known frustrations (latency, connection resilience).
Lately I'm using ExpanDrive (http://www.magnetk.com/expandrive), which just launched officially. Same transport (SSH/SFTP), but with very aggressive caching and intelligent connection management under the hood. Together, they make it *way* snappier than sshfs on even high-latency links, and allow your mounts to stay live on finicky or intermittent connections, even as you sleep your laptop one place and wake it hours later on an entirely different network.
It's a from-scratch new filesystem, not just a GUI for sshfs (though it does use the MacFUSE core), so its performance and stability are quite unlike what you may be used to. Of particular note (and this was a goal in development), the caching works well enough to largely eliminate the TextMate project focus lag problems we're all so familiar with by now, even over long-distance connections.
(Full disclosure: I am tangentially connected with this project.)
I think some of you will quite like it. -jrk
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Hi,
Sorry if this is off-topic, but I have been beating my head against a brick wall, and well, it hurts :)
I am in a work environment where all webdevelopment is on a shared ubuntu box that most people access through smb (one single user, for the most part) without any real problems.
A while ago I started using subversion for my stuff, mostly as an easy way to track changes. I have read here that some people think its idiotic to have the working directory on the server, but, well, I thought it was best.
I discoverd that smb does not "play nice" with svn and got all kinds of permiission problems when attempting to commit. So I started to use macfuse/sshfs. On 10.4 it infrequenly corrupted files, but not often enough to be a deal breaker.
Since upgrading to 10.5 I have had problems where people edit files via smb and I don't see the changes in the sshfs version, even after remount.
Soi I had high hopes when I saw this. I can mount the directory. When a drag a dir on to textmate, I get the expected files, but they all are blank on opening.
anybody have any suggestions?
thanks,
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:01 PM, john muhl lists@johnmuhl.com wrote:
Looks nice, as a mac user I've envied SFTPDrive for a while. I've just one question for you (or anyone willing to help). How do you keep TextMate from removing read access (except for the connected users) on every file saved? This makes quick editing of web-accessible files pretty time consuming from TM. I don't have this problem with TextMate+ [MacFuse|NFS|AFP|WebDAV], just TextMate+ExpanDrive. I also don't have this problem with [Dashcode|TextEdit|Xcode]+ExpanDrive.
thanks john
On 2008/02/25, at 12:02, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley wrote:
Hello all,
As a long-time TextMate user I'm well aware of the issues working with projects on remote filesystems -- I have been doing it day in and day out for just over three years now, using different combinations of tools. Like many of you, I've used Transmit for quick single-file edits and MacFusion/sshfs for heavier remote work for the past year or more, and they work well enough to be productive, but with well-known frustrations (latency, connection resilience).
Lately I'm using ExpanDrive (http://www.magnetk.com/expandrive), which just launched officially. Same transport (SSH/SFTP), but with very aggressive caching and intelligent connection management under the hood. Together, they make it *way* snappier than sshfs on even high-latency links, and allow your mounts to stay live on finicky or intermittent connections, even as you sleep your laptop one place and wake it hours later on an entirely different network.
It's a from-scratch new filesystem, not just a GUI for sshfs (though it does use the MacFUSE core), so its performance and stability are quite unlike what you may be used to. Of particular note (and this was a goal in development), the caching works well enough to largely eliminate the TextMate project focus lag problems we're all so familiar with by now, even over long-distance connections.
(Full disclosure: I am tangentially connected with this project.)
I think some of you will quite like it. -jrk
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