Thanks!
Bryan
On Sun, 16 Jul 1995, lk wrote:
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> this has been done..
> it's called 'arcfs' and was distributed with userfs.. which I am not
> sure if it still works in newer kernels (i wish it did!)...
> kernel support for userfs's would be very very cool
>
>
> On Wed, 12 Jul 1995, Harik A'ttar wrote:
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> > 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.
> >
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