If your use case simply involves editing text files so that they are in sync with the remote server then OpenAFS does seem to be overkill. SSHFS [1] would be t

If your use case simply involves editing text files so that they are in sync with the remote server then OpenAFS does seem to be overkill. SSHFS [1] would be the simplest solution to this. It works well for small files but not well with large ones due to its synchronous nature. [1] http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html