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List:       opensolaris-storage-discuss
Subject:    Re: [storage-discuss] DavFS for Open Solaris
From:       Jeff Cheeney <Jeff.Cheeney () Sun ! COM>
Date:       2008-04-27 22:47:44
Message-ID: 48150290.3090603 () sun ! com
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Rob,

Congratulations, your proposal has received the 3 necessary votes and is 
now approved.

I'll work with you off line to get the project page created and posted.

Again congratulations and we look forward to this exciting project in 
OpenSolaris.

       --jc
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Jeff Cheeney
  OpenSolaris Storage Community Lead
  http://opensolaris.org/os/storage
  http://blogs.sun.com/icedawn


On 04/17/08 08:02, Rob Gittins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to propose a new Open Solaris project called DavFS2.  The
> primary goal is adding support for Solaris to the existing Linux
> implementation.
>
>
> Synopsis: (mostly from davfs2 web page)
>
>         davfs2 is a Linux file system driver that allows you to mount a
>         WebDAV server as a local file system, like a disk drive. This
>         way applications can access resources on a Web server without
>         knowing anything about HTTP or WebDAV.
>
>         This project is to port the Linux version of davfs2 to Solaris
>         10, Open Solaris and Solaris Nevada.
>
>         For Solaris, davfs2 runs as a daemon in userspace. It uses
>         the kernel file system fuse attachment.  Fuse will have to be
>         installed prior to use of this file systems. To connect to the
>         WebDAV server it makes use of the neon library. Neon supports
>         TLS/SSL (using OpenSSL or GnuTLS) and access via proxy server.
>
>         WebDAV is an extension to HTTP that allows remote collaborative
>         authoring of Web resources, defined in RFC 4918.
>
>         More information can be found at http://dav.sourceforge.net
>
> Community Groups
>
>         Storage Community.
>         DAVfs2 Community.
>
> Participants
>
>         Robert Gittins  (project lead)  robert.gittins@sun.com
>         Kevin Clarke    (project lead)  kevin.clarke@sun.com
>
>
> Related Projects
>
>         Fuse - http://opensolaris.org/os/project/fuse
>
>
>
>
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