Mount sshfs on FreeBSD

This was a pain to get right, and all the forum posts and such I could find must have been referring to an older version or something because I just couldn’t not get errors like mount: unknown special file or file system and fstab: /etc/fstab:6: Inappropriate file type or format.

For reference, this is on FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p5, and sshfs --version says:

SSHFS version 3.7.3
FUSE library version 3.16.2
using FUSE kernel interface version 7.38
mount_fusefs [fuse4bsd] version: 0.3.9-pre1

Also, I’m not sure that all these things are completely necessary, but this works for me so I’m writing it down.

The line in /etc/fstab should look like this:

user@host:/path /mnt/mountpoint fuse rw,mountprog=/usr/local/bin/sshfs,allow_other,reconnect,late 0 0

Add this to /boot/loader.conf:

fusefs_load="YES"

And add this to /etc/rc.conf:

kld_list="fusefs"
fusefs_enable="YES"

I’m fairly sure that having the kld_list line in rc.conf negates the change to loader.conf but I mean whatever.