"public NFS" on freedesktop.org ? / was: Re: [Xorg] Anon Ftponfreedesktop.org?

[Douglas McMorris]

> On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 20:16, Roland Mainz wrote:
>> Daniel Stone wrote:
>> > And non-Linux OSes can handle WebDAV fine. I have personally dealt
>> with
>> > WebDAV on OS X and Windows, where it worked seamlessly, and on Linux,
>> > AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris, and FreeBSD, where the userspace tools made
>> > it as easy as FTP.
>>
>> Only applications based on these toolkits can use WebDAV, the shell
>> can't AFAIK. I really won't call that "transparent"...
>
> You're looking for LUFS.  This is linux-specific, though.  This type of
> transparency that you are looking for would have to be OS-specific,
> anyway.  Otherwise it would just be a toolkit level thing, which we have
> established is already widely used (gnome-vfs, kioslaves).
>
> There is even a project to enable the use of KDE ioslaves via LUFS so
> that all apps can access weird file systems through the standard file
> system (mounts).
>
> Michael

The last time I played with LUFS, it already had support for gnome-vfs so
you could use any gnome-vfs location with any application... very nice,
but mount is not a good front end to it IMO (look at how nautilus handles
network mounts)

>
>>
>> ----
>>
>> Bye,
>> Roland
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