Re: httpfs support for live cds

[Richard Nelson <unixabg@gmail.com>]

Greetings,

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Daniel Reichelt <nl@nachtgeist.net> wrote:
>> Could you state an example of when https would be needed rather than http?
>
> httpFs wasn't a typo :)

Ok, yes I thought that was a typo :)

> httpfs allows to mount filesystems via http and is built on top of FUSE,
> see http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/httpfs2
>
> That way one doesn't have to load the whole squashfs image at boot time
> like with fetch=http://..., which enables even systems with less than
> 512MB RAM to run say a gnome live system...
>

Interesting.

Thanks.