fusesshfsgoogle-cloud-colab-enterprise

sshfs does not seem to work in Colab Enterprise notebook


I've been trying to use sshfs to connect a notebook running in Colab Enterprise to my local machine (running an ssh server) and mount a local directory into the remote Runtime. But I get the error fuse: mount failed: Permission denied even before the SSH connection is even attempted.

I'm running as root, connecting to the SSH server as another user (i.e. sshfs someuser@ip ), and my mount point (in the notebook runtime) exists and is owned by root. What could be happening here ?


Solution

  • There was an internal feature request to allow Mount of Fuse systems into Colab Runtime, I submitted the fix and will rollout to production next week. (By Friday 1st should be in all regions)