Re: httpfs what is it?

2002-01-21 Thread Patrick Strasser
Ondrej Hurt wrote: hai I have seen the ftpfs that is really a nice idea and something which people in *nix world can't even think of. I believe they can include it as a new filesystem in the kernel. Ondrej The difference is the translator principle. First the fs-driver has to be

RE: httpfs what is it?

2002-01-21 Thread robert_karllson
The first point is not really true, - there are modules. The second is half-true, - Anyone _could_ (setuid root) insert a module, but there is a problem with a monolithic kernel there. Securities and so one (stability). The third is true, - Even though I do not know how

[] debian-hurd ......

2002-01-21 Thread
Title: job .JOB9114 . JOB9114 .

GRUB 0.91 is released

2002-01-21 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 0.91. This is the second of our prereleases leading up to GRUB 1.0. We encourage you to try it, as we have done a lot of bugfixes and feature enhancement since the previous release. The source and binary distributions are available from

Re: httpfs what is it?

2002-01-21 Thread Niels Möller
Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:35:46AM -0800, Justin Langer wrote: What can be its possible application? You could access the web with all tools, including your shell. Instead running wget, you could just try to use cp, for example. This httpfs

Re: httpfs what is it?

2002-01-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) writes: I want property lists on inodes. Even if it isn't supported at all by major filesystems like ext2, it would still be very good to have a standard interface to properties for filesystems where it makes sense. So I'm of two minds on this. On the one

Re: httpfs what is it?

2002-01-21 Thread Marius Vollmer
Patrick Strasser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Third you are completely in user-space. A fs crash should not be a big problem... just restart your translator (is done at you next fs access). Also, being in user-space means that you can more easily use languages other than C to implement a file

inode properties (Was: Re: httpfs what is it?)

2002-01-21 Thread Niels Möller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: On the one hand, Yeah! Totally! On the other hand, Resource forks suck. Properties should be used only for such things where it makes sense that plain cp loses the attributes, and cp -p doesn't. It makes sense to me to have the properties

Re: inode properties (Was: Re: httpfs what is it?)

2002-01-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) writes: So, well, it's tempting to say we're just doing the mechanism, not the policy. If I really want to add a property that contains an mpeg movie of some friend playing with his or her cats, well, why can't I do that? ;-) Somebody somewhere needs to say