Mats Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi,
> Does anyone know a way to mount a remote file systems > over ftp ? Well, I just have to write this... ;) Hurd is designed to make such things possible very easy. You just set a so called 'Translator' to an directory inode and when you try to access this directory, the translator gets executed and returns data for you. This is, btw, the mechanism used for "mounting" filesystems in GNU/Hurd. You just set a translator (e.g. /hurd/ext2fs) to a directory. Then, you would have access to the ext2 filesystem on a given partition. Easy, he? :) Furthermore, there's a translator 'ftpfs', which just translates data from a given ftp server so that it looks like a normal directory (I don't know, how good ftpfs works right now). If you want to find out more about Hurd, here are some links: http://www.debian.org/ - there's a link to a new Hurd article http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ - the official Hurd homepage http://www.fprintf.net/hurd/ - _many_ very useful links .... bye, moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
