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diff --git a/doc/todo/add_sftp_special_remote.mdwn b/doc/todo/add_sftp_special_remote.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c4dd1e294 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/add_sftp_special_remote.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +A sftp special remote 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 +the rsync special remote. + +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]] |