Why can't I setup an SSHFS share? “OSXFUSE file system is not available” error

Question

I\'m trying to setup an SSHFS share from my local machine to a remote machine, but it is not working. I\'m getting the error OSXFUSE file system is not available (see below). Ho

Answer 1

There appears to be a problem loading the KEXT installed by the regular osxfuse Homebrew package. You can use brew cask to install the official FUSE for OS X build from their own DMG:

brew rm osxfuse
brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
brew cask install osxfuse

SSHFS itself is also available as a Cask package, though on my system mixing osxfuse from Cask with plain sshfs binary bottle works just fine.

The downside to this approach is that brew upgrade or brew outdated will no longer be able to update FUSE for OS X as brew cask is not version-aware for now.