On 2001-03-10 13:36 -0500, Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> > A few of us were talking on IRC tonight about how cool it would be to
> > have an httpfs filesystem -- then it occurred to me we almost have
> > this already, in the form of the (under-utilised) portalfs. Portalfs
> > works by handing off everything to a userland daemon which handles the
> > actual transaction request, so you could easily imagine extending it
> > to provide an http method similar to the tcp method it currently has
> > for initiating tcp connections.
>
> I need not remind you that file systems front-ending onto random
> protocols are a bad idea for a huge number of reasons :-).
Could you give me the three biggest reasons, IYO? I don't seem to
know any of them. Thanks!
Greg
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