Very fast editing over sshfs

Update: this can cause some of your ssh sessions to hang, so be aware of that.

Add this to your ~/.ssh/config

Host myserver.mydomain.com
  ControlMaster auto
  ControlPath /tmp/%r@%h:%p

Then, say you have root access via your ssh pub key

mkdir tmp001
sshfs -o uid=1000 root@myserver.mydomain.com:/var/www tmp001

Now, the files in tmp001 map to your remote /var/www directory. And access to them uses an ssh session that is maintained in your /tmp directory, i.e. all interactions are performed over the same ssh session.

To see the tmp file, if you just opened the sshfs session in the last 10 mins

find /tmp -mmin -10 -ls