Can WebDAV (or a derivative DAV) be an all-things-to-all-platforms file-sharing engine?
DAV can be a file-sharing engine. Go look at MacOS X. It comes standard with a feature to mount a DAV server as a local filesystem, and the server version has a DAV server in it (Apache/mod_dav, actually). There is nothing in DAV that prevents it from being a remote file system. About the only features a remote file system has that DAV doesn’t are *remote* authorization changes and creating symlink type functionality. The ACL draft is nearing completion and provides the former, the References draft provides the latter (but it is stalled). —Greg Stein (gstein[at]lyra.
DAV can be a file-sharing engine. Go look at MacOS X. It comes standard with a feature to mount a DAV server as a local filesystem, and the server version has a DAV server in it (Apache/mod_dav, actually). There is nothing in DAV that prevents it from being a remote file system. About the only features a remote file system has that DAV doesn’t are *remote* authorization changes and creating symlink type functionality. The ACL draft is nearing completion and provides the former, the References draft provides the latter (but it is stalled).
