It's on my long list of projects to get to someday, but if someone else wants to get to it first, that'd be rockin'. The goal is to mount a WebDAV share (dropbox, idisk, your own server, or mobile devices like airstash) as a regular disk from within the Finder. AppleTalk usually isn't bridged by AP's and wireless interfaces these days, so mounting AppleShare isn't as convenient, particularly with setups like my pb540c's wifi hack. So, WebDAV seems like a modernish alternative that is nearly ubiquitous.
My initial research on the subject indicates the old style filesystems for MacOS were all through File System Translators, which as I understand it were kind of a hack (also how initial ISO 9660, MachTen's NFS, and all early non-MFS, non-HFS filesystems were implemented AFAIK). Apple introduced the File System Manager to make it a more supportable interface. FSM was included in System 7.6, but was available separately and worked on System 7.0 on. Developers could license it from Apple for redistribution with products that used it and wanted to work on
My current project of trying to present a file over HTTP as a local disk was initially intended to be a transition project between the memdisk driver and a webdav filesystem. Write some ranged HTTP put & get routines, throw it in the memdisk driver, move on. But nothing is ever that simple, and I've been trying to work through some of the difficulties of that idea.
My initial research on the subject indicates the old style filesystems for MacOS were all through File System Translators, which as I understand it were kind of a hack (also how initial ISO 9660, MachTen's NFS, and all early non-MFS, non-HFS filesystems were implemented AFAIK). Apple introduced the File System Manager to make it a more supportable interface. FSM was included in System 7.6, but was available separately and worked on System 7.0 on. Developers could license it from Apple for redistribution with products that used it and wanted to work on
My current project of trying to present a file over HTTP as a local disk was initially intended to be a transition project between the memdisk driver and a webdav filesystem. Write some ranged HTTP put & get routines, throw it in the memdisk driver, move on. But nothing is ever that simple, and I've been trying to work through some of the difficulties of that idea.