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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: kio_mount
From:       Julien Olivier <jo () villafrance ! com>
Date:       2001-11-16 15:03:52
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I definitely agree with you even if I'm not at all able to program such a 
thing... sorry. Maybe putting KIO stuff in a lower level would even make it 
faster, am I right ?

Le Vendredi 16 Novembre 2001 13:20, Rob Kaper a écrit :
> The more I use KIO, the more I think it does not belong in KDE. It should
> be available in a much broader context. It should live on top of the
> kernel, as system service.
>
> It's a bit unlikely that will ever happen, but a nice compromise would be
> to have the ability to mount KIO slaves. This would give every application
> on the system access to any content behind KIO slaves. For example, you
> could forego NFS alltogether and kio_mount a SFTP account.
>
> Martijn Klingens informed me about the following page
>
> http://lwn.net/2001/1115/a/fuse.php3
>
> which is about user-space mounting. Requires kernel 2.4 to compile, but
> doesn't require a kernel recompilication to work.
>
> Should I contact the author and propose cooperation to somehow make FUSE
> and KIO work together and create a kio_mount program which could be
> optionally compiled (kdeaddons or something) in case FUSE is found on a
> system?
>
> It wouldn't be as nice as KURL/KIO support in glibc/kernel (cp
> audiocd:/Ogg\ Vorbis/*.ogg sftp://user@host/home/user/), but I can
> definitely see some very valuable uses for kio_mount.
>
> Ideas? Flames? Praise?
>
> Rob

-- 
Julien Olivier

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