The "ML Device" protocol is a remote file system invented for the PDP-10 MIT Incompatible Timesharing System. It may have been the very first transparent networking filesystem.
Install libfuse-dev, then type make.
Create a mount point directory, and then mount an ITS file system like this:
sudo ./mount.mldev <hostname> <mountpoint>
I haven't bothered to figure out how FUSE works with user permissions, so do everything as root.
Unmount like usual, with umount <mountpoint>.
FUSE accepts a number of command line options in between the host
name and mount point. A useful one is -f which makes FUSE run in
the foreground and print debug messages.
Another way is to add the file system to /etc/fstab:
hostname mountpoint mldev rw 0 0
Note that for this to work, mount.mldev must be installed somewhere mount can find it, e.g. in /sbin.
- Doesn't work with binary files. Only text files for now.
- Doesn't care about file metadata like file length, timestamps, or author.
- Doesn't work fully with
/embedded in file names.