I haven&#x27;t used FUSE SSHFS in around 8 years. I&#x27;m sure it has improved a lot since then. I could imagine it handling file listing and stat better than other network protocols (cd&#x2F;ls over ssh works well over most WAN connections). It looks like it now caches directly contents too (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libfuse&#x2F;sshfs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libfuse&#x2F;sshfs</a>). It probably wasn&#x27;t fair for me to include SSHFS in the list since I haven&#x27;t used it in so long. I was troublesome when I used it.