On Wed, 12 Jul 1995, Harik A'ttar wrote:
> Reply-to: ind00621@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
>
> Ok: I had a thought the other day on an FTP fs, similar to NFS and the
> /proc system. Essentally: All it would be is a directory structure.
> I.E. /ftp/dotted.ip.of.host/structure
>
> This would be held in files: probably gzipped ls -lR
>
> if you read a file, it would attempt to connect, and fetch the file
> (into a definable size cache) I.E. you could
> cd /ftp/ftp.cc.gatech.edu/pub/Linux/kernel
> ls
> (provides most recent ls of the directory)
> cat README
> fetches README from the correct dir into buffer, and then cat's it.
>
> Connect-on-demand is supported (lynx, ncftp, etc) so that wouldn't be
> too hard to do. For administratiors: Since, while browsing directory
> listings, they arn't actually CONNECTED to the site, only to fetch a
> file, how much would this reduce load?
>
> Anyway, I havn't more then started looking into this project,
> (mostly looking for a skeleton fs device to pick apart)
> but I would be glad to try my hand at it if people
> thought it was a good idea.
>