[Request] shfs

jerem · 2005-07-25 20:21:28

Shfs stands for Secure Shell FileSystem.

It is a secure(encrypted) nfs alternative.

Is there any plan to support this in Arch ?

If you use nfs, the connection is not encrypted.

If you use ssh, you cannot mount the filesystem, you'll have to deal with the tools that are available on the remote machine.

With shfs, the connection is encrypted and as is mounts the remote ressources, you can use the tools on the local machine. Sweet, eh ?

phrakture · 2005-07-25 20:25:06

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=1&ID=698

Edit: it *is* in the [community] repo, by the way (uncomment it in pacman.conf)

jerem · 2005-07-25 20:29:19

Sweet !

But doesn't such a feature(because no other program can perform encrypted remote mounting, it's a feature, not simply a program) deserve to be merged into Arch official repos ?

Dusty · 2005-07-25 20:48:53

vote for it in AUR. Enough votes and it will go into [extra]

Dusty

Gullible Jones · 2005-07-25 20:55:28

I think Jerem has a point... That should be in Current.

phrakture · 2005-07-25 21:00:05

Gullible Jones wrote:

I think Jerem has a point... That should be in Current.

ok, that's 2...

no one understands this, and I just have to ask why... I mean seriously... if Arch has 10000 users and only 1 wants something, no matter how awesome or unique it is, does it deserve to go into [current]? Most likely not, considering the small number of package maintainers.

A better system would be one in which the wants of the user can be expressed through a vote... oh wait, yeah, that's the AUR...

Seriously, just vote for the thing... for everyone that believes something is worthy of extra or current, there is another who doesn't - take me for instance. I could care less about shfs...

More votes = move from unsupported to community
More votes after that = move from community to somewhere else

Dusty · 2005-07-25 21:01:49

Gullible Jones wrote:

I think Jerem has a point... That should be in Current.

Dusty wrote:

vote for it in AUR. Enough votes and it will go into [extra]
Dusty

swiergot · 2005-07-26 20:25:10

What's the difference in which official repository it is, community or extra (I consider community official repo). It's a matter of deleting one '#' character in /etc/pacman.conf.

Dusty · 2005-07-26 20:26:47

swiergot wrote:

(I consider community official repo).

Its not. That's the difference. ;-)

[extra] is maintained by ArchLinux Developers. [community] is maintained by Arch Linux users such as yourself.

Dusty

swiergot · 2005-07-26 20:33:07

Dusty wrote:

swiergot wrote:
(I consider community official repo).
Its not. That's the difference. ;-)

Alright Almost official, much like official I mean, it's almost as available as official repos (except that one little change in /etc/pacman.conf) and it has blessing from developers. And it can be almost equally trusted as official (after all, we are trusted users, aren't we).

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