ftp filesystem
Hi,
Suppose I'm at home, and want to get at my files from a remote site
that doesn't export filesystems to me. I have a shell account there,
so I can use ftp (or scp), but what I'd really prefer is a filesystem
view, e.g:
cd /remote/user@x.y.org
ls
less foo
cp bar /tmp
I know about midnight commander, and it is similar to what I want,
except that I'm forced to use their user interface. I want a shell
user interface. In fact, Pavel Machek has used the MC code to create
"uservfs" <http://sourceforge.net/projects/uservfs> (nee "podfuk")
which sounds like it does what I want.
There was also code that implemented a "user filesystem" in the linux
kernel. It has been dropped by its original author, but a few others
have patched it <http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/userfs>, so it might be
viable still.
Has anyone any experience with such filesystems? Which is worthwhile?
>From the little research I've done, I'm tempted to go with Pavel's
uservfs. I'm hoping it is feasible to write a filesystem that uses
SSH (and scp) for transport, so that I can access systems that don't
have an ftp server. This would be similar to the TRAMP package for
emacs.
Ob-dd: I don't see uservfs in debian, nor in WNPP. Has anyone
packaged it unofficially? If I can get it to work, I'll package it
for Debian. But I'd be happy to be beaten to the punch and handed a
deb-src to test! ;-)
-Steve
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