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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: foobar on 23 July 2002, 21:59

Title: 2q
Post by: foobar on 23 July 2002, 21:59

Hi.
Just two questions:

I'm @ wet_chicken's place now,

 - I mv'd quake 1 to the linux box, but sqpro got a segmentation fault. It started like it should, but my assumation is that svgalib crashes when starting its graphical functions.
Can it be a problem with driving the Intel 82815 card ? It works on my bloody old p133 without an OpenGL graphical card, wich wet_chicken's graphical card does support.
 - Is it possible to 'mount' an external file system to your own local ?
So i want, it to mount ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/linux (http://ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/linux)
to a local dir ... is it even possible ?

Title: 2q
Post by: DC on 24 July 2002, 00:58

About 2: I strongly doubt that it's possible to mount an ftp site. You could ofcourse just FTP to it  (http://smile.gif) . FTP isn't a filesystem btw.

You can mount remote filesystems though - that's were nfs is for. That is suppost to be extremely difficult (to get right, that is - I'm pretty sure the basics are not too hard) though, and I don't need it (and therefore never bothered to learn). You do need an NFS-server for this though.

Title: 2q
Post by: voidmain on 24 July 2002, 06:18

Ahhhh, never say never in UNIX:

http://ftpfs.sourceforge.net/ (http://ftpfs.sourceforge.net/)

I believe there are other file systems that can mount FTP directorys as a local file system as well.  They've been around for many years.

Title: 2q
Post by: DC on 24 July 2002, 06:44

Ah. I stand corrected. My humble apologies.

Not that I said never.

[off-topic] Why the hell would ppl use FTP en-masse in a local LAN? That's sick!
(read the site if you're wondering what I'm talking about)
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[ July 23, 2002: Message edited by: DC ]

Title: 2q
Post by: voidmain on 24 July 2002, 07:07

Well I would imagine that if you have high speed access and wanted to mount up your closest Linux distribution mirror you could install apps right off of the FTP site without having to download them first.  Just an example...

Title: 2q
Post by: choasforages on 24 July 2002, 07:50

kinda like what i did with slackware, but even odder , SWEET

Title: 2q
Post by: foobar on 24 July 2002, 22:21

Ah, void, i would almost think you was a mind-reader.
I think it's rather annoying FTP'ing to ftp.nl.uu.net or whatever pro-linux-rpm package site.
So, if it was possible to mount an ftp site, why not at boot time ? So you could just 'cp' from the external system to the local.

Title: 2q
Post by: DC on 24 July 2002, 23:26

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Originally posted by VoidMain:
Well I would imagine that if you have high speed access and wanted to mount up your closest Linux distribution mirror you could install apps right off of the FTP site without having to download them first.  Just an example...

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I said 'en masse in a LAN'. FTP isn't ment for that (read the site). I can understand why someone would want to mount a ftp site (although it is still not ment to be mounted or browsed or used as a fs - ftp is ment only to transfer files - hence the name).

why the HELL would you mount a FTP-site at boottime? Do you really need constant access to a single FTP site (that's were boottime-mounting is for, sort of). Anyway. You can mount it using mount with the patch voidman gave, so (as long as  the site is accessible when it's mounted - that means inet access is active) it's possible.

Title: 2q
Post by: voidmain on 25 July 2002, 02:25

I can't imagine a need for it on a LAN when you could use NFS instead, but I can see where it could be useful.  Aparently the guy who wrote it had a need for it.