[PATCH 1/5] Add suport for tftp as a filesystem

[Sascha Hauer]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 05:54:37AM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 18:58 Sun 19 Feb     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > This adds tftp filesystem support. It currently duplicates
> > significant amounts of the tftp (command) support. This is ok
> > since we can eventually drop the original tftp command later.
> > 
> > tftp is not really suitable to be handled as a filesystem. It lacks
> > support for stat, reading directories and other things. Handling
> > it as a filesystem has one big advantage though: tftp is no special
> > case for boot scripts and/or commands anymore which makes them simpler.
> > 
> > This implementation has some improvements to the original tftp command.
> > It supports blocksize negotiation which speeds up transfers if the tftp
> > server supports it. Also we can determine the filesize to transfer if
> > the remote end supports it.
> > 
> look good do you have seach patch for nfs?

No, everyone is invited to implement it ;)

NFS is a bit more complicated than tftp though. The implementation we
have lacks readdir support, so we have to figure out how to do this
first.

Sascha

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