I just ran into something like this recently. I sshfs mounted remote
directory /home/remote-user locally on /home/local-user/mnt
A symlink in the remote directory pointing at /usr/lib/my-app appeared
broken. I assumed this was a result of the symlink pointing outside of
the shared path.
As I only temporarily needed to access it, my quick and dirty fix was to
copy the remote small directory /usr/lib/my-app into
/home/remote-user/my-app then I could easily access those files over
sshfs. After I was finished, I deleted /home/remote-user/my-app
