From af0f714d8aa927a4140fb5a42143c5858b98393e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:48:44 -0400 Subject: designing new git-annex-shell multi This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project. --- doc/todo/add_sftp_special_remote.mdwn | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/add_sftp_special_remote.mdwn (limited to 'doc/todo/add_sftp_special_remote.mdwn') 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]] -- cgit v1.2.3