Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 05:57:22 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UID < 65535? Message-ID: <199609241057.FAA18347@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199608261551.KAA00407@brasil.moneng.mei.com> References: <199608261536.KAA13897@Jupiter.mcs.net>
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Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> wrote: >Maybe it's time to try something else... NFS seems to have so many problems. >"Adapting the code to fit reality" may not be a trivial exercise - unless >you don't mind breaking compatibility with everyone else in the world (maybe >you don't mind doing that as a local site hack).. I have a horrible idea. How about using HTTP, with local whole-file caching a-la AFS/VICE? It'd be the obverse of Sun's web-nfs, and allow you to mount anything that'd serve as a website. Yes, it's got even more statelessness problems than NFS, but doesn't AFS have a similar problem? And you could use header entries to pass just about any ownership/permission stuffs you want, and let users mount stuff by providing a password, and use HTTPS for encryption... And you could "cd /www/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD2.1.5/..."
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