SSHFS for Remote Filesystem Using Local Disk

JacobvC · 05-01-2014, 06:39 PM

I am mounting a remote filesystem to my computer using SSHFS to edit a LibreOffice document. Whenever I save, there is a spike in my local disk usage. What I am wondering is why does saving to a remote filesystem touch my local disk? Where is the data being written to (it is a write according to an iostat)?

Jacob

ondoho · 05-02-2014, 01:48 AM

most probably libreoffice is doing some local magic with temporary files, updating its bookmarks and whatnot.
no need to worry.

JacobvC · 05-02-2014, 08:51 PM

Makes sense, thanks.