Re: [TCLUG:14342] automount ftp

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 12:14:51PM -0600, Scott Dier - dieman wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Ben Luey wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way to mount an ftp directory? If so, can it be automounted
> > with autofs or something like that?
> 
> Uh.  Ive never heard of a kernel driver able to do this, so I doubt it
> :(
> 
> Why do you need to ftpmount something anyhow?

	It'd be sort of neat to have a generic kernel driver which
forwarded requests to a user space process.  Then adding weird kinds of
filesystems would be trivial.

	Of course, that might make the system to micro-kernel like.
*grin*

Hmmm...
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