FTPFS

FTPFS refers to file systems that support access to a

application programming interfaces

(APIs).

The ftpfs command in Plan 9 was originated by Dennis Ritchie and was included in the first release of the system (1992). It arranged for a remote file system reachable via FTP to appear as part of the local file system.

In

libcurl for FTP transactions, and is becoming part of the major Linux distributions

. There also exists LftpFS for smart mirroring of FTP sites.

In macOS, a read-only FTP file system is included that can be used either via the GUI (with ⌘ Command+K) or the command line (mount_ftp). The read-only limitation is noted in the man page for mount_ftp (on a macOS system, in Terminal.app, see "man mount_ftp"). However, the free application Macfusion includes a working implementation of FTPFS. Additionally, macOS Fuse is reported to enable this but the method to do so is undocumented (as of March 4, 2013) either via various obvious man page (e.g. sshfs) or in the macOS Fuse wiki.

For

Win32 file system APIs, however. Such functionality can be provided by third party programs such as WebDrive and FTPDrive

.

References

^ Beroff, David (4 Jun 2013). "How to configure and use the Windows 7 native FTP client". LiveJournal. Archived from the original on 30 May 2014. Retrieved 30 May 2014.

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[1] Beroff, David (4 Jun 2013). "How to configure and use the Windows 7 native FTP client". LiveJournal. Archived from the original on 30 May 2014. Retrieved 30 May 2014.

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