I did consider that. But then a cursory look at the open issues proved that I don’t have the requisite knowledge, and resources (various platforms that it supports)
Until you need to write, at which point you run into a litany of quirks that stem from the fact that rclone is designed to work with fancy remote kv-stores and has no idea how to partial-update.
Though from quick skim of https://rclone.org/sftp/ it seems you have to configure each remote. With sshfs you don't need to do any configuration apart from ~/.ssh.
Great info. But this best belongs in a man page (or some other relevant document) in sysutils/sshfs-fuse, considering OpenBSD’s reputation for high quality documentation.
Not really, but several ports do have OpenBSD-specific documentation added by the port maintainer. I agree that it would be nice to put this information in the port.
SSHFS is next level in terms of networking. We've had network drives forever, but having a guarantee it will act like a normal filesystem makes it so much smoother to work with.
That said, in my book, sync thing is an even better version for synced file systems. Mostly because you can't lose connection or need to setup the connection each time.
https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs