Re: mount an ftp or ssh filesystem

2003-09-26 Thread Pascal Giannakakis
C. Ulrich wrote:
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 04:34, Pascal Giannakakis wrote:

Hello,

i'd like to mount remote ftp and ssh dirs into my local dir-tree, however
can't find info on that for FreeBSD. I can't find neither a port, nor something
for the kernel (like LUFS in Lunix). Other network-FSs are not an option.
BTW - If you wonder whats its use is: i would like to access the files i work
on with different programming tools seamlessly.
Is it possible at all in FreeBSD 5.1?

TIA


I don't know for sure whether it's possible or not, but mounting a
remote FTP directory onto a local mount point does not sound like a good
idea.
You said that other network filesystems are not an option, but then
neither FTP or SSH (assuming you meant FTP tunnelled through SSH) are
networking filesystems either. The two popular implemtations of network
filesystems are NFS (Unix) and SMB (Unix via Samba, Windows). You should
take a close look at those since you will get much better performance
and security with them than by grafting an FTP directory to your
filesystem. If you need this in order to do your job and don't have
administrator access to the remote machine(s), then petition your system
administrator to look into NFS or SMB.
C. Ulrich
Of course you are right when you say there are better solutions for 
network-filesystems, and i use them when i have access to the server 
config. However most servers i work on are mass-products where your 
personal need for features is always answered by upgrade your account. 
This, in turn, arises the need for some other (OS-level) solution.

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Re: mount an ftp or ssh filesystem

2003-09-25 Thread C. Ulrich
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 04:34, Pascal Giannakakis wrote:
 Hello,
 
 i'd like to mount remote ftp and ssh dirs into my local dir-tree, however
 can't find info on that for FreeBSD. I can't find neither a port, nor something
 for the kernel (like LUFS in Lunix). Other network-FSs are not an option.
 BTW - If you wonder whats its use is: i would like to access the files i work
 on with different programming tools seamlessly.
 
 Is it possible at all in FreeBSD 5.1?
 
 TIA

I don't know for sure whether it's possible or not, but mounting a
remote FTP directory onto a local mount point does not sound like a good
idea.

You said that other network filesystems are not an option, but then
neither FTP or SSH (assuming you meant FTP tunnelled through SSH) are
networking filesystems either. The two popular implemtations of network
filesystems are NFS (Unix) and SMB (Unix via Samba, Windows). You should
take a close look at those since you will get much better performance
and security with them than by grafting an FTP directory to your
filesystem. If you need this in order to do your job and don't have
administrator access to the remote machine(s), then petition your system
administrator to look into NFS or SMB.

C. Ulrich
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Re: mount an ftp or ssh filesystem

2003-09-25 Thread JacobRhoden

 i'd like to mount remote ftp and ssh dirs into my local dir-tree, however

This would be really really nice wouldnt it, I looked into it and didnt find 
anything at all. One day I may learn how to code it and do it myself. (I dont 
know enough about how write devices to do it yet). I would happy team up with 
anyone to write the ftp code side of it though.


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