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FTP mounting as a filesystem was the big thing? Wowzers.
by bprater 18y ago
FTP mounting as a filesystem was the big thing? Wowzers.
- jfoutz 18y agoI think taking the standard read write calls on arbitrary underlying implementations to the logical limit was the big thing. unix is nice, because you can read off a file or a socket or a mouse or a disk. This lets you do that over ... anything, i guess.
- blasdel 18y agoIt was FUSE, but better, and 15 years earlier. For instance, FUSE filesystems still can't support nonblocking IO.