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+If you ever get this error when mounting:
+
+```
+fuse: failed to open mountpoint for reading: Too many levels of symbolic links
+```
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+The solution is (got it from here https://blog.luukhendriks.eu/2019/01/25/sshfs-too-many-levels-of-symbolic-links.html)
+
+    I've found using sshfs for network mounts to be quite convenient. Especially on
+    my laptop, which I'm using on various places (i.e. outside of my own home, thus
+    outside of my own network): mounting `mydomain.nl:/some/path/on/my/server' will
+    be available to me everywhere, securely, because SSH.
+    
+    However, in certain situations sshfs can throw an error that left me puzzled
+    for quite some time, multiple times already.
+    
+    too many levels of symbolic links
+    
+    In my case, a fresh key pair on the server turned out to be the cause. The
+    sshfs was mounted by root (though as a normal user), but root had not connect
+    to the server after the key refresh. Ergo, the new fingerprint was not seen
+    before. How this results in an error about symbolic links is beyond me, but it
+    did. The Arch wiki points this caveat out as well:
+    
+    And most importantly, use each sshfs mount at least once manually while root so
+    the host's signature is added to the /root/.ssh/known_hosts file.
+    
+    Hope this saves someone from the headache it caused me.