Suppose that an entry on any filesystem could be replaced by a symlink
which pointed to a URL, and that an appropriate handler was dispatched
for that URL. This would allow, for example, config files to point to
a different machine.
Right now we can accomplish this by mounting alternative file systems
and symlinking to them, but only if an appropriate file system has
been written.
Something like this was presented at OSDI, uh, year before last.. you might
check the Usenix webpage about this.
On 20 Apr 2001 [email protected] wrote:
> Suppose that an entry on any filesystem could be replaced by a symlink
> which pointed to a URL, and that an appropriate handler was dispatched
> for that URL. This would allow, for example, config files to point to
> a different machine.
>
> Right now we can accomplish this by mounting alternative file systems
> and symlinking to them, but only if an appropriate file system has
> been written.
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Hi!
> Suppose that an entry on any filesystem could be replaced by a symlink
> which pointed to a URL, and that an appropriate handler was dispatched
> for that URL. This would allow, for example, config files to point to
> a different machine.
>
> Right now we can accomplish this by mounting alternative file systems
> and symlinking to them, but only if an appropriate file system has
> been written.
See podfuk, recently moved to uservfs.sourceforge.net.
Pavel
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