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I have a remote computer, and I mount its filesystem with sshfs to my local folder ~/user@host, like that:
sshfs user@host: ~/user@host
Works nice, but I want to implement "lazy" mount: i.e. I don't want it to be mounted at system startup, but I want it to be mounted just when I'm trying to open my local folder ~/user@host .
Probably there is some way to define like "filesystem hooks": just when user requests directory contents, some command should be executed. Is it possible?
I think you're describing autofs. Autofs mounts filesystems on demand, that is, when you try to access them. According to this Arch wiki page, it should work with sshfs. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/autofs#FTP_and_SSH_.28with_FUSE.29
Looks like sshfs has a -o delay_connect option now, which is hopefully much easier to deal with than setting up autofs.
