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# Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014 Werner Baumann
# Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2016 Werner Baumann
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# permitted in any medium without royalty.
DAVFS2 1.4.6 README
DAVFS2 X.X.X README
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1 INTRODUCTION
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implementation. But if a free WebDAV enabled application is available, you
might try it first.
davfs2 can't (always) replace lodal disk space. Due to the nature of WebDAV
davfs2 can't directly redirect reading and writing to the WebDAV server. davfs2
always needs local copies of all open files. So if you have not enough sidk
space to hold these local copies, davfs2 will not help.
2 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
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5 CACHE
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davfs2 will store a local copy of all open files in its cache. So make sure
there is enough local disk space available in the cache directory.
There are two reasons for caching:
- The coda kernel file system expects a local copy of the file to act on.