Hi all, Recently I played with httpfs which is a fuse based filesystem that mounts http urls. The cool stuff with httpfs begins when you mount livecd ISO on a remote mirror: * You can boot the live cd and try it, without downloading the whole cd/dvd (using qemu, vmplayer and maybe kvm?) * You can run applications from within the live cd without downloading everything (using chroot)
Future work will allow users to mount a compressed filesystem as the "real" root filesystem (without chroot or such). I wrote a HOWTO for this: http://vamosproject.org/hacks/httpfs I also want to write a script that lets a user easily mount the various public mirrors ( e.g debian's, ubuntu's). So I still wonder - Is it completely legal? The mirrors would not like the idea of users leeching their bandwidth constantly :) A kvm test by somebody is most welcome (I don't have kvm yet). Cheers, Hadar vamosproject.org
