Came across something that might be of help to you. Apparently there is a utility that lets you mount files across the network using ftp and ssh. This may give you the performance you want as well as the access. Found this as one of the utilities on a rescue CD I was looking at today. (which looks like it would be handy to have around for emergencies) http://www.sysresccd.org/ Searched a little and found this reference to the lufsmount program. http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/printer.pl?issue=2002-12&article=potm If you want to access files located on an FTP server, there is a new very powerful way to do this. The "userLand FileSystem" allows you to mount the share, and work on the remote files just as you would work on any local files. With all these file systems, you can unmount the share with the standard umount command. Here is an example of how to mount an FTP file system in /mnt/ftp as anonymous (read only) # mkdir /mnt/ftp # lufsmount ftpfs://ftp.server.org /mnt/ftp # cd /mnt/ftp # umount /mnt/ftp Here is an example of how to mount a private FTP account in /mnt/ftp2 # mkdir /mnt/ftp2 # lufsmount ftpfs://login:password@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx /mnt/ftp2 # cd /mnt/ftp2 # umount /mnt/ftp2 Here is an example of how to mount an SSH file system in /mnt/ssh as anonymous (read only) # mkdir /mnt/ssh # lufsmount sshfs://login@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx /mnt/ssh # cd /mnt/ssh # umount /mnt/ssh -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx We've picked COBOL as the language of choice.
