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On 5/2/25 22:15, Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote:
> Unfortunately Cygwin hasn't integrated FUSE filesystem types into 
> 'mount' and /etc/fstab.  This is why FUSE mounts are recorded in /var/ 
> run/fuse.mounts rather than in the usual mount table, for example.
> 
> The sshfs man page is correct for Linux and other OSs but less so for 
> Cygwin.  On Cygwin any FUSE mount has a managing process; these are 
> sshfs, and when available, ftpfs, memfs, etc.  They do the actual mount 
> and then hang around in background to support operations on the mounted 
> filesystem.  The Cygwin DLL doesn't know about these filesystems.
> 
> If your goal is to have "permanently" FUSE-mounted filesystems, about 
> all I can suggest is to run sshfs from your first Cygwin shell after a 
> system boot.
> HTH,
> 
> ..mark


Thank you for the clarification.


David


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