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authorRichard Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2010-02-15 22:53:40 +0000
committerRichard Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2010-02-15 22:53:40 +0000
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Remove references to FTP, replace with FUSE.
We originally intended to implement an FTP server (and before than, an NFS server). But we didn't implement either. We did however implement a FUSE service (guestmount) which takes the place of both.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rwxr-xr-xsrc/generator.ml13
-rw-r--r--src/guestfs.pod3
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/src/generator.ml b/src/generator.ml
index 6f071add..9a989f27 100755
--- a/src/generator.ml
+++ b/src/generator.ml
@@ -4704,8 +4704,8 @@ let seq_of_test = function
(* Handling for function flags. *)
let protocol_limit_warning =
"Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit
-of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB. To transfer large files you should use
-FTP."
+of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB. To transfer large files, see
+L<guestfs(3)/UPLOADING>."
let danger_will_robinson =
"B<This command is dangerous. Without careful use you
@@ -5213,8 +5213,7 @@ and generate_xdr () =
(* Having to choose a maximum message size is annoying for several
* reasons (it limits what we can do in the API), but it (a) makes
* the protocol a lot simpler, and (b) provides a bound on the size
- * of the daemon which operates in limited memory space. For large
- * file transfers you should use FTP.
+ * of the daemon which operates in limited memory space.
*)
pr "const GUESTFS_MESSAGE_MAX = %d;\n" (4 * 1024 * 1024);
pr "\n";
@@ -8393,7 +8392,8 @@ schemes, qcow, qcow2, vmdk.
Libguestfs provides ways to enumerate guest storage (eg. partitions,
LVs, what filesystem is in each LV, etc.). It can also run commands
-in the context of the guest. Also you can access filesystems over FTP.
+in the context of the guest. Also you can access filesystems over
+FUSE.
See also L<Sys::Guestfs::Lib(3)> for a set of useful library
functions for using libguestfs from Perl, including integration
@@ -8930,7 +8930,8 @@ schemes, qcow, qcow2, vmdk.
Libguestfs provides ways to enumerate guest storage (eg. partitions,
LVs, what filesystem is in each LV, etc.). It can also run commands
-in the context of the guest. Also you can access filesystems over FTP.
+in the context of the guest. Also you can access filesystems over
+FUSE.
Errors which happen while using the API are turned into Python
RuntimeError exceptions.
diff --git a/src/guestfs.pod b/src/guestfs.pod
index 7f810f34..dd419ac7 100644
--- a/src/guestfs.pod
+++ b/src/guestfs.pod
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ schemes, qcow, qcow2, vmdk.
Libguestfs provides ways to enumerate guest storage (eg. partitions,
LVs, what filesystem is in each LV, etc.). It can also run commands
-in the context of the guest. Also you can access filesystems over FTP.
+in the context of the guest. Also you can access filesystems over
+FUSE.
Libguestfs is a library that can be linked with C and C++ management
programs (or management programs written in OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby,