Comment 10 for bug 404047

2009/7/26 Ernst <email address hidden>:
> And isn't it possible to add ssh:// to the dumb servers and make it like
> sftp? Or does sftp provide certain operatios which are not possible in ssh?
> This could be useful to some users, as devices like my Networked Media Tank
> become more and more popular and DropBear is the most suitable SSH solution
> on those devices (because of the low resource usage). As DropBear does not
> provide sftp, you have to use ftp which can be slow. A more efficient ssh
> access would be welcome in such case.

If you can install bzr on the server and run bzr+ssh:// that will
probably be faster than either sftp or ftp. That will require Python
on the server.

If you're asking can we do a dumb transport over ssh then that's sftp.
 There's no point reinventing it. Note that sftp can be run as a
subprocess of sshd so there's no resource usage until it's used.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>