Re: networked file system

[Matthew Jacob]

Something like this was presented at OSDI, uh, year before last.. you might
check the Usenix webpage about this.

On 20 Apr 2001 [e-mail] wrote:

> Suppose that an entry on any filesystem could be replaced by a symlink
> which pointed to a URL, and that an appropriate handler was dispatched
> for that URL.  This would allow, for example, config files to point to
> a different machine.
> 
> Right now we can accomplish this by mounting alternative file systems
> and symlinking to them, but only if an appropriate file system has
> been written.
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