For fun (and because I think it might be a useful feature), I'm working
on a filesystem that allows a website to be mounted as a local
filesystem. I'm starting to dive in, and successfully have the kernel
recognizing that webfs exists, so it's now time to write some socket
code. Amongst the thing I want to put into this system is caching of
server data locally, specifically on the local filesystem. The
question I have is, can one filesystem ask to write to another? I
don't see anythinng in there that seems to attempt to do this, so I
need to be sure said is possible.
Why this is not as stupid as it sounds: Imagine the internet-enabled
appliance scenario: today, if say a DVD manufacturer has a glitch in
their DVD player, the only fix is to take it in for repair. If the
device was internet-enabled, and further read its software off the web,
it could conceivably update software on the fly without the inconvience
of the user going without his player. Nother scenario: you could save
your files to a website run anywhere, then download them anywhere.
David Bialac
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