Re: Comments on Microsoft Open Source documentA

Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com)
Thu, 12 Nov 1998 03:01:27 +0100

On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 07:20:57AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> Maybe a cacheing httpfs (with some kind of directory listing) would do
> the trick.

As a sidenote, this already exists. Here:

http://dd.sh/perlfs/

You can find the alpha version of a kernel module that allows you to write a
filesystem in perl. One of the demo filesystems is a caching net filesystem
(in ~500 lines):

# perlmount Net /mnt
# cd /mnt
# cd http/www.gcc.ml.org
# cat index.html

etc... and it works fine on 2.1.127 (unlike userfs ;)

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