Re: [NEW] sysutils/wdfs-fuse

On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 06:17:03PM +0200, Marcus MERIGHI wrote:
> Then I used the example from the README to connect to a nextcloud
> server, which worked. I opened a 624K .pdf and a 1.6M .docx via
> libreoffice, then ran out of patience :-) Unmount worked, too.
>
> Thanks again, Marcus

I am afraid WebDAV is inefficient for accessing office files over
LibreOffice. There is so much overhead. There is a mention of this fact
in the README.

For that sort of transparent access we'd need a WebDAV implementation
for FUSE with better caching (wdfs does not generate full caches, but
caches only some file stats) or one which supports partial reads and
writes over http. Still the ones I have tried in other Operating Systems
tend to be sluggish.

I think wdfs is intended more as a way of uploading and downloading
files rather than operating directly on them over FUSE with userspace
programs.

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