Comment 11 for bug 404047

Well, I'm trying to get bzr running on my 'server' (which is actually a
media device). See my bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404333.

Also, I did not succeed in enabling sftp on my media device, but I hope I
will succeed some day :-).

Thanks for your support! I got really fast answers on my bug reports /
questions.
Ernst

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 02:13, Martin Pool <email address hidden> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/ <http://launchpad.net/%7Embp/>>
>
> --
> bzr update takes ages over FTP
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404047
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