> Has anyone considered adding a "Web filesystem" (a la Plan9) to Linux?
>
> It would be really great to be able to have a regular file that was
> really a link to a file on a web server somewhere.
You can probably build one yourself easily with muserfs (at
tsx-11.mit.edu). It is basically a kernel module that allows you to write
user level file system drivers. It is not perfect yet, though.. I managed
to create 58 zombies with in and bring my system to a state where it could
not be brought nicely down. The module has an example driver for ftpfs.
I don't think filesystems like this should be built in to the kernel
anyway..
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