Re: Special-Filesystems

[Rich Derr <rhd@webdesigngroup.com>]

On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 04:00:32PM +0100, Raphael Becker wrote:

> my wish for the next generation is a FTP-Filesystem like you can have
> when using Midnight Commander. 
> 
> You should mount it to somewhere and it makes a connection on demand
> with the given parameters (eg ftp-mashine, username, password).

<http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/userfs/>

   I remember this from 1.2 or so.  The date there is pretty old and I
bet it needs reworking, but if you're interested go to it.

   Personally I see no need for it to be done as a filesystem, but as
it's just a module, your hacking doesn't mean one byte of extra code
on my systems.

-- 
Rich Derr, sysadmin                   Have ssh, Will Telecommute
Web Design Group   www.webdesigngroup.com   TEL: +1 312 951 6588
-
Linux-future: thinking about the future of the Linux kernel
http://humbolt.nl.linux.org/lists/