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Re: Just a few questions
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Michael Heath |
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Re: Just a few questions |
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Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:16:58 -0600 |
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On 09/16/2009 01:05 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Flexibility for the user:
transparent ftp
$ cd /ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian
$ ls
personnal filesystem
$ dd< /dev/zero> myspace.img bs=1M count=1024
$ mke2fs myspace.img
$ settrans myspace /hurd/ext2fs myspace.img
$ cd myspace
Samuel
Just curious, but I keep seeing these (and other similar) concepts being
brought up as the amazing selling points of the Hurd, but all of this is
entirely doable now in Linux with FUSE or things like it. I'm not sure
if an ftp filesystem has been implemented for FUSE yet, but its
definately doable; and loopback filesystems like in your second example
have been supported for years.
What, then, are the major selling points or benefits?
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Michael Heath