NAME
mount.dapfs - Mount DAP filesystem over DECnet
SYNOPSIS
mount.dapfs <node> <mount-point> [-o options] [options]
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the DECnet programs (dnprogs) suite.
mount.dapfs mounts a DAP filesystem on (probably) a VMS server as a
directory on a Linux system. It is invoked by the mount command when
usig the -t dapfs switch. dapfs use the FUSE (Filesystem in USEr space)
system.
The node name specified must exist in /etc/decnet.conf or be a node
address. With no options given dapfs will connect using a default
DECnet account on the remote server.
OPTIONS
username=
tells dapfs to use this username for the connection.
password= tells dapfs to use this password for the connection.
block tells dapfs to return data using block mode rather than
record mode. This will return the whole of the internal file
structure (eg with sequential files you could get odd line
endings where the record separators live). It is most useful for
reading binary data.
record read data using record mode (the default).
EXAMPLES
# mount -tdapfs zarqon /mnt/vax
Mounts the default DECnet account on node ZARQON onto the Linux
filesystem /mnt/vax
# mount -tdapfs alpha1 /mnt/alpha -ousername=SYSTEM,password=field
Mounts the home directory for the user SYSTEM on node ALPHA1, using the
password "field" on /mnt/alpha.
CAVEATS
All files are access by record and this can cause some odd effects if
you are not expecting them. The file size shown by VMS includes the
record overhead of RMS, but dapfs shows only the record contents.
utilities that get the file size (using stat) then read that many bytes
into a buffer will end up with a file padded with zeros. There’s not
much I can do about this. Later versions of dapfs might include an
option to disable record access, but I think this is less useful as it
would have to be filesystem-wide.
Seeking doesn’t work unless you have a remote server that supports
STREAM access to files (currently VMS 7.x seems not to). This means
that some utilities (eg unzip) will not work as they try to seek inside
the file looking for data.
SEE ALSO
decnet.proxy(5), dnetd(8), dnetd.conf(5), dntype(1), dndir(1),
dndel(1), dntask(1), dnsubmit(1), dnprint(1)