[Zope] Zope and Editors

Hannu Krosing hannu@trust.ee
Tue, 03 Aug 1999 21:46:02 +0300


bruce@perens.com wrote:
> 
> Stephan wrote:
> > To be really cool, Zope should support NFS functionality for
> > UNIX and SMB
> > functionality for Windoze. That would rock.
> > Are there any plans to do that?
> 
> From: Paul Everitt <Paul@digicool.com>
> > This is an exceedingly ambitious project.  Patches accepted. :^)

Yep, then we would almost have Oracle 8i :)

> Paul,
> 
> What if we provided a way for Zope to export a virtual filesystem containing
> the same things you may now access via the FTP protocol? Then, you could use
> the services of a kernel to export that filesystem via NFS or SMB, or via the
> native FTP server.
> 
> I think there have been filesystem-in-a-process implementations for Linux,
> as well as drivers that presented the contents of a remote FTP server as a
> filesystem. I don't know if any of these exist any longer (I didn't see them
> in a cursory look over the 2.2.10 kernel).

I'll do a check of my (huge) bookmark list, but I think I saw an user
level 
filesystem implementation that did the main bulk of things in perl with
just 
a small C module for interfacing.

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Hannu