Mount ftp filesystem in RedHat Enterprise edition 5

jackd1000 · 12-15-2008, 04:42 AM

I am thinking about mounting a filesystem using ftpfs or 'ftpmount' on RedHat Enterprise Edition 5. I notice the ftpfs filesystem is not recognised nor is ftpmount available. Does anybody know if mounting ftp filesystems is supported fot use on RedHat Enterprise Edition 5 ?

unSpawn · 12-15-2008, 06:29 AM

Maybe install FUSE first?

unSpawn · 12-15-2008, 06:29 AM

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jackd1000 · 12-15-2008, 08:22 AM

Do you know any reliable RedHat sources for FUSE ? We are to some extent limited to who we can get our packages from - either just ORACLE or Red Hat basically

unSpawn · 12-15-2008, 09:04 AM

FUSE is available from dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/fuse/ and was recently added to vanilla kernel.org kernels. But if RHN and Oracle are your only two officially allowed sources I guess you can't have it. OTOH if it's just a question of convincing people of code maturity then nothing should keep you from setting up a test box, doing a code audit on FUSE, build it and see how it performs.

lazlow · 12-15-2008, 05:33 PM

Just for curiosity why not just use NFS?

jackd1000 · 12-16-2008, 05:10 AM

no NFS daemons on the target server and none likely to be forthcoming.
I've used curl which gives a kind of smoother solution to pulling down documents in any case. I presume this is a better solution than a virtual filesystem for a (relatively infrequent) upload frequency, no more than once an hour. Is there a greater network overhead with an FTP based VFS than for instance, say, a curl type interface ?

lazlow · 12-16-2008, 01:12 PM

It is just a little unusual to be setting up something like this on a server that you do not have control over. No idea about the overhead but I would suspect that there is a good reason why NFS, samba, cifs, are generally used rather than the method you are suggesting.