Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006 )

From: Brian Candler <B.Candler_at_pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 21:47:53 +0000
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 04:02:38PM -0500, Ed Maste wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:32:18PM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
> 
> > Linux has an extremely neat solution for this (sshfs) but I don't know of
> > anything comparable in the BSD world. sshfs uses 'Fuse', a plug-in
> > architecture which allows filesystems to run in userland. I believe it makes
> > an sftp connection to the remote host, and then exposes it as if it were a
> > real filesystem.
> 
> In fact, FreeBSD's got Fuse & sshfs as well.  Csaba Henk did the port
> as a Google SoC project.  See <http://fuse4bsd.creo.hu/> and
> /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs* .

Looks like very recent work. Thanks for the pointer - although it seems it's
not available for FreeBSD <6.0 unfortunately.
Received on Sat Dec 24 2005 - 20:47:59 UTC

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