Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 21:22:40 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: httpfs Message-ID: <20010311212240.D9369@klapaucius.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010310133423.86098G-100000@fledge.watson.org>; from rwatson@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 01:36:30PM -0500 References: <20010310031515.A8998@mollari.cthul.hu> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010310133423.86098G-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On 2001-03-10 13:36 -0500, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > A few of us were talking on IRC tonight about how cool it would be to > > have an httpfs filesystem -- then it occurred to me we almost have > > this already, in the form of the (under-utilised) portalfs. Portalfs > > works by handing off everything to a userland daemon which handles the > > actual transaction request, so you could easily imagine extending it > > to provide an http method similar to the tcp method it currently has > > for initiating tcp connections. > > I need not remind you that file systems front-ending onto random > protocols are a bad idea for a huge number of reasons :-). Could you give me the three biggest reasons, IYO? I don't seem to know any of them. Thanks! Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Five million battered women in mailto:gsutter@zer0.org this country, and I've always http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ eaten mine plain... hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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