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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-04-05 14:29:33 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-04-05 14:29:33 -0400 |
| commit | db43b065c9d482aa03bc701ad0d157550995a5e0 (patch) | |
| tree | 9fadb63b2f7d940aba2b8b39a3979a5f66ccce86 /doc/todo/add_sftp_backend.mdwn | |
| parent | 2956736bc56eeba5bd6198beb39c43c45d6a7ee9 (diff) | |
another reason
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diff --git a/doc/todo/add_sftp_backend.mdwn b/doc/todo/add_sftp_backend.mdwn index 386fec3c8..0874c729e 100644 --- a/doc/todo/add_sftp_backend.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/add_sftp_backend.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ 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. + +> 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]] |