diff --git a/kerchunk/sync_wrapper.py b/kerchunk/sync_wrapper.py
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+import inspect
+from fsspec.asyn import AsyncFileSystem
+
+
+class SynchronousWrapper(AsyncFileSystem):
+    """If the calling code requires an async filesystem, but you have sync"""
+
+    def __init__(self, fs, **kw):
+        self.fs = fs
+        super().__init__(**kw)
+
+    def __getattribute__(self, item):
+        fs = object.__getattribute__(self, "fs")
+        if inspect.iscoroutinefunction(getattr(AsyncFileSystem, item)):
+
+            async def f(*args, **kwargs):
+                return getattr(fs, item.lstrip("_"))(*args, **kwargs)
+
+            return f
+        else:
+            return getattr(fs, item)