Star Network Transparency and the Multi-Root Filesystem
Linked by Will Varfar on Tue 3rd Aug 2004 05:32 UTC
Internet & Networking This article offers feature suggestions to budding OS developers looking for that neat edge.
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Re: A little problem with http
by Daniel de Kok on Tue 3rd Aug 2004 13:22 UTC

Some while ago I made an lswww command which worked fine on www.microsoft.com, it just needs to find local hrefs within the index.html, it worked for most JavaScript constructed URIs as well.

Do you really want the kernel to interpret HTML? ;)

But seriously, most common internet file transfer protocols don't provide enough basics filesystem primitives to make them reliable and/or fast. They provide no locking, reliable retrieval of data, and in the case of HTTP not a persistent connection. Besides that it would really be better to make things mountable (instead of the kinda weird access methods the author suggests). As some others already said, patches like LUFS already provide things like FTP mounting. So, if you really want it you can get it.