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+====== How to use SSHFS to mount anything ======
+SSHFS ("SSH File System") is a system to let you mount **anything** on **any machine** that you can SSH to.  To use it on Ubuntu:
+  $ sudo apt-get install sshfs
+  $ sudo adduser <your_userid> fuse
+You can install it on RHEL5/CentOS5 [[http://www.sdmachelp.com/fuse/fuse-sshfs.html|these directions]].  You don't even have to be root to use it (provided you are in the 'fuse' group, or you "chmod 777 /dev/fuse").
+  register$ mkdir mntpoint
+  register$ sshfs break:/ mntpoint
+  register$ ls mntpoint
+   a    boot  etc   initrd  lib64       media  mnt  opt               proc  sbin     srv  t    u    var
+   bin  dev   home  lib     lost+found  misc   net  post-changes.tar  root  selinux  sys  tmp  usr  x
+  register$ echo something > mntpoint/etc/yp.conf
+   bash: mntpoint/etc/yp.conf: Permission denied
+Neat, but what if we want root access to that system?  Well, you can do:
+  register$ sshfs root@break:/ mntpoint
+You'll need the root password to that last bit.
+You can go all crazy and mount a bunch of stuff at once:
+  pac00# for A in `seq 0 9`; do mkdir pac0$A ; sshfs pac0$A:/ pac0$A ; done
+That will make a directory for pac00 .. pac09 and mount that system's root there.  Then you could go nuts with some scripts to modify each system.
+Because this works on **any** system you can SSH to, it cuts through NAT routers and firewalls, and you can mount almost any OS, including:
+  * Linux
+  * VMWare ESX
+  * Solaris
+  * FreeBSD
+  * Mac OS X
+  * Windows (if you've installed an SSH server like Cygwin)

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