Aaron Kimball wrote:
Doesn't the WebDAV protocol use http for file transfer, and support reads / writes / listings / etc?
Yes. Getting a WebDAV-based FileSystem in Hadoop has long been a goal. It could replace libhdfs, since there are already a WebDav-based FUSE filesystem for Linux (wdfs, davfs2). WebDAV is also mountable from Windows, etc.
Is anyone aware of an OSS web dav library that could be wrapped in a FileSystem implementation?
Yes, Apache Slide does but it's dead. Apache Jackrabbit also does and it is alive (http://jackrabbit.apache.org/).
Doug
