Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jun 1999 14:33:34 -0500 (CDT) | From | "Edward S. Marshall" <> | Subject | Re: WevDAV anyone? |
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On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Christian Scholz wrote: > I am not wondering if anyone wants to do something like that under > Linux (means, writing a webdav filesystem which acts as a client. > A webdav server in addition to NFS would maybe also be interesting > but maybe not that important..)
A modified user-space NFS server might do what you want (essentially, re-export the WebDAV filesystem as an NFS filesystem). But good luck supporting all the extra file properties that DAV gives you in a clear manner (every file as a directory, perhaps, with properties represented as files under there, with a special file named "data" or somesuch that represents the data associated with that object? Just a thought...).
Alternatively, you might look at the virtual filesystem work done with Midnight Commander and GNOME; the following URL has a brief overview:
http://www.gnome.org/devel/arch/vfs.shtml
Those would be good proof-of-concept designs, before going about bloating the kernel with something that might not end up being incredibly useful. Show that it works, then integrate with the kernel if a userspace setup proves to be unacceptable.
-- Edward S. Marshall <emarshal@logic.net> [ What goes up, must come down. ] http://www.logic.net/~emarshal/ [ Ask any system administrator. ]
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