From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Mar 11 21:22:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from klapaucius.zer0.org (klapaucius.zer0.org [204.152.186.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7EE337B718; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 21:22:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsutter@zer0.org) Received: by klapaucius.zer0.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 779A3239A54; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 21:22:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 21:22:40 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter To: Robert Watson Cc: Kris Kennaway , hackers@FreeBSD.org, fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: httpfs Message-ID: <20010311212240.D9369@klapaucius.zer0.org> References: <20010310031515.A8998@mollari.cthul.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rwatson@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 01:36:30PM -0500 Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2001-03-10 13:36 -0500, Robert Watson 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