I'm wondering if anyone can come up with an answer. I'm after a piece of software that will "mirror" an ftp directory (as an example) locally, but will not retrieve the files unless read. I'm sort of thinking of a FUSE sort of local filesystem. i.e. The SUSE updates repository. 1. Set up a local folder. 2. Get the remote file list. 3. An app requests a file. 4. If in local cache, return file, goto 3 5. If not local, and if connection closed, reopen. 6. Try to retrieve, then return file, goto 3 (every so often (on mount, once/day) repeat 2) The point being that I have multiple machines I want to update, so I don't want to waste bandwidth by a) downloading the kde updates repeatedly, or b) replicating the whole folder with updates for packages I haven't installed. It seems like this would be a sensible addition to SUSE for those of us with multiple machines, (applying to virtual ones too.) I've googled, and gone through lots of pages, but I can't find something that operates like this. The closest I seen so far is fuseftp. The two problems I can see with this are 1. I think the cache expiry time is specified in seconds, and I can't see if there is an indefinate (i.e. passing 0) 2. I think it holds the ftp connection open while it is mounted, which wouldn't be good for the servers, with people holding connections open. Any suggestions? -- Steve Boddy -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com