Comment 83 for bug 34813

I have just slammed into this myself and wasted several hours trying to debug 'sshfs' thinking that was gone haywire. I usually use Eclipse PDT and my files saved fine. Then I was starting a new project, but didn't want the bloat of Eclipse just yet while I copied files into directories and modified basic template parameters. My files would save the very first time, but subsequent saves weren't working. I tried setting them to "666" and the upstream dirs to "777" and still it failed. I noticed that if I deleted the files from an ssh terminal, then clicked save in gedit they worked every time. The only other thing I noticed was there was a ~ (backup) file. I then turned that option off in gedit's preferences and now it saves all the time.

I can also edit and save from my desktop to the sshfs files with VIM no problemo (although I don't use ~ backup files on there either, so this may be a red-herring)

So this is certainly a strange bug with gedit and NOT sshfs.

I use Ubuntu 8.10 with all current updates.