[geeks] Custom NFS servers

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 06:49:22PM -0500, dave at cca.org wrote:
> >I thought it would be cool to look into an FTP and http file system. Imagine
> >/http/www.sunhelp.org/index.html or
> >/ftp/ftp.gnome.org/anonymous/jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu/pub/gnome/stable/
> >Anyway, it was just a thought.
> 
> Ah, but wouldn't it be much much cleaner to just have URLs as your
> basic filepath type?

Do you mean use file://~/.emacs, nfs://servitude/export/joshua and so on?  Why
would I want to do that?

The appeal of http and ftp as file systems is then existing software could use 
them flawlessly.  And it doesn't end there.  I keep thinking that a /gtk/procid
file system would be cool (instant bindings for any new scripting language).

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd