Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 08:36:38 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Peter da Silva <peter@taronga.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UID < 65535? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960925083535.3641r-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199609241057.FAA18347@bonkers.taronga.com>
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On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Peter da Silva wrote: > Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> wrote: > >Maybe it's time to try something else... NFS seems to have so many problems. > >"Adapting the code to fit reality" may not be a trivial exercise - unless > >you don't mind breaking compatibility with everyone else in the world (maybe > >you don't mind doing that as a local site hack).. > > I have a horrible idea. > > How about using HTTP, with local whole-file caching a-la AFS/VICE? It'd > be the obverse of Sun's web-nfs, and allow you to mount anything that'd > serve as a website. > > Yes, it's got even more statelessness problems than NFS, but doesn't AFS > have a similar problem? And you could use header entries to pass just > about any ownership/permission stuffs you want, and let users mount stuff > by providing a password, and use HTTPS for encryption... > > And you could "cd /www/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD2.1.5/..." Just like the alex filesystem which was layered over anon-ftp. Is alex still in use? Archie.au used it extensively in 1990-1993. Danny
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