On 9/3/05, Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree that lots of people would like the functionality. I regret that
although it appears that v9fs could provide it,
I think you are wrong there. You don't appreciate all the complexity
FUSE _lacks_ by not being network transparent.
While FUSE doesn't handle it directly, doesn't it have to punt it to
its network file systems, how to the sshfs and what not handle this
sort of mapping?
Sshfs handles it by not handling it. In this case it is neither
possible, nor needed to be able to correctly map the id space.
Yes, it may
On 9/3/05, Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While FUSE doesn't handle it directly, doesn't it have to punt it to
its network file systems, how to the sshfs and what not handle this
sort of mapping?
Sshfs handles it by not handling it. In this case it is neither
possible, nor
Yes, it may confuse the user. It may even confuse the kernel for
sticky directories(*). But basically it just works, and is very
simple.
In principal, Plan 9 file servers handle permission checking
server-side, so we could likewise punt -- but it seemed a good idea to
have some
