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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2016-04-05 14:29:33 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2016-04-05 14:29:33 -0400
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A sftp backend would be nice because gpg operations could be pipelined to the network transfer, not requiring the creation of a full file to disk with gpg before the network transmission, as it happens with rsync.
There should be some libraries that can handle the sftp connections and transfers. I read that even curl has support for that.
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+> Another reason to build this is that sftp has a `SFTP_FXP_STAT`
+> that can get disk free space information. "echo df | sftp user@host"
+> exposes this, when available. Some sftp servers can be locked down
+> so that the user can't run git-annex on them, so that could be the only
+> way to get diskreserve working for such a remote. --[[Joey]]