FTP-FS

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Description:

This is BeOS legacy driver. It may or may not work under Haiku.It could render your system unstable
About FTP-FS:

FTP File System allows to mount a FTP server.

Warning
This is alpha quality software use at YOUR own risk!
Downloading files from a FTP server should work, if not, please file a bug report.
Uploading files is experimental and does not work reliably. Do NOT file a bug report in this case.

Features

Has low requirements on FTP server. Creates a single connection to FTP server.
For better performance, mirrors contents of FTP server on demand. Uses a file cache.
Visualizes file state in icon (whether file data is remote, being downloaded or mirrored).
User initiated refresh of directories and files from FTP server.
Automatically reconnects to FTP server if connection is closed.
Reads already available file data while file is being downloaded.
Automatically uploads entire file that has been changed, after it has been closed.
Prioritizes directory downloads over file downloads and small files over large files.
Download is interruptible by higher priority download.
Client-server architecture for file system, to avoid hard crashes in the kernel. Kernel space file system add-on delegates operations to user space ftpfs_server.

Limitations

Attributes are unsupported.
Symbolic links can not be created or changed.
Single directory or file download at a time only. As long as a download is in progress other download operations with lower priority are delayed.
If /boot/home/ftpfs is open in Tracker before mounting a file system, the file system can not be unmounted using Trackers Unmount menu. The Folder has to be reopened with Tracker. This is either a bug in Tracker or FTP-FS.
Volume capacity is always reported as 1 MB with 0.5 MB used and 0.5 MB free.
Tested with FTP server for BeOS, Linux FTP server version 6.5/OpenBSD, linux port 0.3.2 and Cerberus 2.1 for Windows. Need feedback about using FTP-FS with FTP servers on other platforms.

Bugs

Dano/Zeta crashes when unmounting a FTP volume.
Unmounting is not always possible. Sometimes Tracker and/or Deskbar have to be killed and restarted, before a FTP filesystem can be unmounted. Open Team Monitor by pressing CONTROL+ALT+DELETE to kill an application.
Killing ftpfs_server while a FTP file system is mounted is a Bad Thing.