Short note on how to mount a SIF collection as a virtual drive on a UNIX-like operation system (Linux, macOS).

First log into SIF at https://sif.au.dk.

The run the below script:

$ sif_mount <coll-name>

where <coll-name> is the SIF collection name.

You can now access your SIF files locally.

BTW: I need a clean way to unmount instead of ps aux|grep rclone; kill <pid> or killall rclone.

#!/bin/zsh

# Usage: sif_mount 
# Mounts the specified rclone remote "sif_" to ~/sif.

# --- Check argument ---
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 "
    echo "Example: $0 mydata"
    exit 1
fi

SIF_MOUNT=${HOME}/sif

if [ ! -d $SIF_MOUNT ]; then
   echo "SIF mount $SIF_MOUNT not found."
   exit 1;
fi

rclone mount sif_$1: $SIF_MOUNT \
	--vfs-cache-mode writes \
	--vfs-cache-max-age 2m \
	--dir-cache-time 10s > ~/rclone.log 2>&1 &
sleep 3

echo "SIF collection $1 mounted at $SIF_MOUNT and log messeges in ~/rclone.log"