From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 24 03:56:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA09676 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 03:56:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ami.tom.computerworks.net (root@AMI.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.95.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA09644 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 03:56:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bonkers.taronga.com by ami.tom.computerworks.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0v5V9X-0021VZC; Tue, 24 Sep 96 06:55 EDT Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id FAA18347; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 05:57:22 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 05:57:22 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Message-Id: <199609241057.FAA18347@bonkers.taronga.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UID < 65535? In-Reply-To: <199608261551.KAA00407@brasil.moneng.mei.com> References: <199608261536.KAA13897@Jupiter.mcs.net> Organization: none Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Joe Greco 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/..."