From 68ef108cb79eacbdf229ac71cf61761c7fed7181 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 14:29:33 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] another reason --- doc/todo/add_sftp_backend.mdwn | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/todo/add_sftp_backend.mdwn b/doc/todo/add_sftp_backend.mdwn index 386fec3c8a..0874c729e3 100644 --- a/doc/todo/add_sftp_backend.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/add_sftp_backend.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ A sftp backend would be nice because gpg operations could be pipelined to the network transfer, not requiring the creation of a full file to disk with gpg before the network transmission, as it happens with rsync. There should be some libraries that can handle the sftp connections and transfers. I read that even curl has support for that. + +> Another reason to build this is that sftp has a `SFTP_FXP_STAT` +> that can get disk free space information. "echo df | sftp user@host" +> exposes this, when available. Some sftp servers can be locked down +> so that the user can't run git-annex on them, so that could be the only +> way to get diskreserve working for such a remote. --[[Joey]]