Re: Re: httpfs what is it?
> > I have seen the ftpfs that is really a nice idea and something which
> > people in *nix world can't even think of.
In fact, we had this kind of thing in all BSD kernels starting
with 4.4BSD Lite (read: in FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD). It's called
'portal' filesystem:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_portal&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.4-stable&format=html
'ftpfs' is in fact a fairly common application of the portal fs.
> I believe they can include it as a new filesystem in the kernel.
Probably.
The nice thing about /portal is that the attached processes run
in user-land. No need to write yet another kernel module for this ;-)
Portal-FS is probably the closest analogy of a Hurd translator
in the Unix world.
-Farid.
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