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From:	Ben Wing <ben AT 666 DOT com>
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Subject:	free NFS client for Cygwin and/or support for FUSE?
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Is there a free NFS client anyone can recommend that works will with Cygwin?

Also, has anyone considered building something like FUSE into Cygwin?  
FUSE is a package for creating user-mode filesystems in Linux.  It 
requires a certain amount of kernel support; but I can't see how it 
would be difficult to adapt for Cygwin.  That, in turn, would allow all 
sorts of nice file systems to be added -- e.g. the sshfs, which allows 
you to mount a remote ssh connection as a file system; CVSFS, which 
shows the different revisions of CVS repositories as different files, 
somewhat ala ClearCase; WikipediaFS, for mounting Wikipedia as a file 
system (easier to change than going through the normal interface); 
archivemount (mounting tar, cpio, etc. archives as directories); etc.

The result would be Cygwin-specific, i.e. wouldn't work in non-Cygwin 
utilities, but that's OK; the benefit of having such a system would be 
so great that it would vastly outdo the trouble of not being able to use 
non-Cygwin utils.

ben

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