RMount is a lot more robust than existing libraries and methods to create a remote connection to a cloud server. For example you would want to use Python to connect to a cloud storage such as S3 or a remote server via SSH and treat it like a local file-system.
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It has been a pain to write this library given how many things can go wrong when treating a cloud storage as a local file-system. For example, connection drops, or writing of large files can make the system unresponsive and lead to loss of data. The library is supposed to take care of such cases but it is always subject to unforeseen failures.
or pip install rmount
What benefits would this have over something like s3fs? I’ve never had issues with that, but it doesn’t cover all the use cases you outlined. There are robust alternatives for SSH as well that have connection error monitoring to avoid the situation you outlined.
Yep, I mean using aws cli is good enough. A simple aws s3 cp copy_from copy_to is a command that should get 99% of people moving along.
I normally do that as well, but some people prefer to mount s3 as a file system like mentioned in this post. I’ve had to use it for work when my boss required it. I’d personally use the CLI for everything.