[freenet-chat] Towards a Freenet Filesystem

[Joel Salomon]

On 5/23/06, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > >Oh and you shouldn't have to mkdir for a get!
> >
> > Why not?  The directory is just an abstraction in memory; no disc
> > directory is being created.
>
> Well sure but it's more intuitive if you are able to just do
> /freenet/KSK at gpl.txt - or at least /freenet/quick/KSK at gpl.txt (I accept
> that some files will take *ages* to fetch and so need a different API).

That depends on the intended use; do we want to make the Freenet key
space to look like an extension of the file system, or do we want a
file-like, scriptable, interface to the network?

I rather suspect you'd need some *ugly* ioctl to make the
/freenet/KSK at gpl.txt interface work for large files or SSKs.  How do
you report "bad key format" or "splitfile error" or any
Freenet-specific error with the simple FS interface?

--Joel