[freenet-chat] ANN: freedisk (freenet filesystem) pre-alpha

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On Fri, 26 May 2006 14:33:42 +1200, David McNab
<david at rebirthing.co.nz> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've checked into the svn repo a first hack at 'freedisk', which is an
> implementation of a linux filesystem over freenet (using the FUSE
> framework)
> 
> So far, it's only a partial implementation. I've announced it at this
> premature stage in the hope that some brave soul might be persuaded to
> take it for a spin, and report any hassles that arise from (attempts
> to) install it and get it going.
> 
> It's way easy to set up on debian, because all the dependencies are in
> the debian feeds already (libfuse2, python-fuse, fuse-source). Users
> of other distros may or may not incur a bit of head-scratching,
> depending on the distro.
> 
> This partial implementation of freedisk is only capable of:
> 
>  - generating new keypairs (cat /mnt/freenet/cmd/genkeypair)
> 
>  - retrieving simple URIs (cat /mnt/freenet/keys/KSK at hello),
>    as long as the URIs don't contain slashes
> 
> Next stages will include:
>  - error logging/retrieval
>  - basic key insert
>  - CHK insertion and URI retrieval
>  - asymmetrical key insertions (SSK@, SRK@, USK@ etc)
>  - directories over freenet, via USKs

Not intended in any way to detract from your work, but what is the
intended purpose or use for this?

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"