WebDAV file system

Brad Fitzpatrick brad at danga.com
Fri Dec 8 10:18:25 UTC 2006


I wouldn't recommend it.  It's a neat hack, but too many layers of
indirection.  We need to do FUSE->Mogile directly before I could suggest
doing something like that.


On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Jay Buffington wrote:

> Hi,
>
> One reason why we have been hesitant to implement MogileFS in
> production is because we have tons of old code that makes assumptions
> where the file lives on disk.
>
> I remember seeing the WebDAV filesystem that Jonathan was working on
> during the MogileFS summit.  Is this available anywhere?  I'd like to
> give it a shot so that we can support the old way of accessing files
> on disk.  WDFS would just be a transparent window into the world of
> mogile.
>
> Is there much overhead to using WDFS?  Has this been benchmarked
> against using the API directly?
>
> Thanks,
> Jay
>
>


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