[gopher] Re: GopherFS implementation questions

[Timm Murray <hardburn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Saturday 12 January 2002 12:15, you wrote:
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> All in all, I'm not quite sure if you _can_ represent Gopher in a FS
> structure. It will take some really ugly translation-step hack to say the
> least. Or you should of course be able to use Windows-like symlinking,
> which work non-transparently, just as you'd need it.
>
> And mind you, I haven't even fought the battle of Gopher+ yet... (I see
> material for a sequel here :-/)

I've been thinking about having a full-fledged Unix filesystem over Gopher.  
Something that would include uids/gids and could be used as a replacement for 
NFS.  This would require Gopher+, though, and you couldn't drop in an 
existing Gopher+ server for use as the main file server (though it probably 
wouldn't need too much modification).

The nice thing about using Gopher+ as a filesysem is that you can have 
full-fledged MIME types, not just relying on the filename extention.

- -- 
X windows:  A mistake carried out to perfection.
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