On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:11:23 +0100, Richard A Downing FBCS CITP
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I came across this really useful functionality while idly browsing in
Freshmeat. I had not seen it before, so I thought I'd share it.
Curlftpfs (http://curlftpfs.sourceforge.net/) allows you to mount an ftp
site on a directory on your system, and then use it as if it were
filestore. This is very useful, if like me, your ISP provides an ftp
interface to your web pages.
I can now type:
mkdir web-site
curlftpfs -o user=username:password ftp.isp.com web-site
and then just copy/edit the pages that I want.
After which, a simple:
umount web-site
drops the connection.
Curlftpfs depends on FUSE (and libcurl, of course - from BLFS), for
which you need both a userland library: libfuse, and a kernel module -
however, I found it better to rebuild the kernel with FUSE switched on
(2.6 kernels have it as CONFIG_FUSE_FS, Filesystem in Userspace
support). http://fuse.sourceforge.net.
R.
Funny you should mention it. I just happened to be reading about FUSE last
night. There are quite a few neat things out there like that. You can, for
example, do exactly the same thing with SSH as you describe here with FTP.
There was also a package giving safe read/write access to NTFS partitions.
Have fun.
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