> For me, the ftp-as-filesystem-mount idea would be > useful primarily > for people who do not have control over the remote > host and are > thus unable to configure it to run NFS or Samba > (which I suspect > was the original poster's predicament). The > end-result would > essentially be an FTP client which tries to work as > transparently > as possible. > > We actually already have more-or-less this sort of > functionality > in GUI mode.
Your correct, I am considering using IBackup (www.ibackup.com) They offer an add-on software for windows that allows you to have the remote storage space appear as a local drive. but for GNU/Linux they only offer FTP, rsync, webbased access, email dropping. Konqueror already provides a way make the remote storage function like a local mount, but on a none GUI application level I'm still looking for a way to do that. --- Andy Sy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ariz wrote: > > > on some applications, it might be cool but the > reason why we're > > migrating from SMB to FTP is to avoid the > processing of files > > directly on the the server which tends to bring > down the machine > > to its knees. > > Why go to the trouble of converting the whole setup > to FTP? If > you made the SMB directories read-only, wouldn't > that essentially > force people to copy the files over to their local > directories > before working with them? > > > Dean wrote: > > > Only problems I could think of would be caching, > file-seek > > operations, and locking mechanisms. Sockets bound > to files, > > fifo's, mmaped files originating from a remote FTP > filesystem > > are just some of the problems that would be dealt > with -- just > > off the top of my head. > > First thing I would do is study how VFS works and > worry about > these other hairy stuff later. Or perhaps check out > these > filesystem-in-userland projects: > > http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/userfs/ > http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ > http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~machek/podfuk/podfuk.html > > > > It should however prove useful especially for open > systems > > and hybrid networks (ones that have both Windows > and Linux nodes). > > Samba takes care of that (for LANs at least). > > For me, the ftp-as-filesystem-mount idea would be > useful primarily > for people who do not have control over the remote > host and are > thus unable to configure it to run NFS or Samba > (which I suspect > was the original poster's predicament). The > end-result would > essentially be an FTP client which tries to work as > transparently > as possible. > > We actually already have more-or-less this sort of > functionality > in GUI mode. > > > > > -- > reply-to: a n d y @ n e o t i t a n s . c o m > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go > to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
