Star Network Transparency and the Multi-Root Filesystem
Linked by Will Varfar on Tue 3rd Aug 2004 05:32 UTC
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Theres more to it than what you mention.
by Steve on Tue 3rd Aug 2004 23:25 UTC

Integrating local and remote namespaces is an active area of work, but one problem with your suggestion is that adding url keywords and syntax to the local file system breaks the unix model of file names. If you're really interested in this, please go install Plan9, read all the papers, and look at the ftpfs linux vfs program as well as the links that other people have put here.

When you understand why these remote-file solutions work the way they do instead of the way you think they should, you might want to revise your paper to take into account what your have learned. What it really comes down to is that remote filesystems won't obey POSIX semantics, and that would break most of the programs which used your interface.

Also, if you're interested in naming, I recommend you read the "future vision" paper at http://www.namesys.com.