On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Todd Vierling wrote:

> Which leads back around the circle to the misconception about what portalfs
> is:  it's a portal to existing filesystems, not a filesystem of its own.

Huh?

From man mount_portal:

     The portal daemon provides an open service.  Objects opened under the
     portal mount point are dynamically created by the portal daemon according
     to rules specified in the named configuration file.

(it goes on from there)

There's the tcp option, which will open a tcp socket. There's the fs
option, which will map to another part of the file tree, then there are
the rfilter and wfilter options. These ones open up to a pipe to another
program. While most of the examples do reference files (like gzipping
them, gzcating, etc), the ftp:// one and the http:// one obviously don't
play with files on the local fs. :-)

Take care,

Bill