X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45474045.6010903@666.com> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:23:33 -0600 From: Ben Wing User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" Subject: free NFS client for Cygwin and/or support for FUSE? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/