[Question] mounting a remote disk image

[Question] mounting a remote disk image

[Niraj kumar]

Hi,

Is there a way in Linux to mount a remotely located disk image
(like maybe an iso image) over netowrk (think http) without
downloding it completely ?

Maybe something like :

#mount  http://www.server.com/image.iso  /dest_dir


-Niraj

Re: [Question] mounting a remote disk image

[hooanon05]

"Niraj kumar":
> Is there a way in Linux to mount a remotely located disk image
> (like maybe an iso image) over netowrk (think http) without
> downloding it completely ?

How about http://aufs.sourceforge.net/uloop.txt?
Note: I don't use it much by myself.
You can get source files from CVS tree on SourceForge.


Junjiro Okajima

Re: [Question] mounting a remote disk image

[Tomas M]

> "Niraj kumar":
>> Is there a way in Linux to mount a remotely located disk image
>> (like maybe an iso image) over netowrk (think http) without
>> downloding it completely ?

Another possible solution is using httpfs, which is just a FUSE-based filesystem. It runs in userspace, but requires FUSE, compared to uloop, which is a kernel driver. Search google for httpfs, it's old, but works too. You'll have to patch it manually and add "Connection: Keep-Alive" header to it, in order to get better performance.

Tomas M
slax.org


hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp wrote:
> "Niraj kumar":
>> Is there a way in Linux to mount a remotely located disk image
>> (like maybe an iso image) over netowrk (think http) without
>> downloding it completely ?
> 
> How about http://aufs.sourceforge.net/uloop.txt?
> Note: I don't use it much by myself.
> You can get source files from CVS tree on SourceForge.
> 
> 
> Junjiro Okajima
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