Setting up translators - HowTo

Additional translators can be got from incubator, or hurd-extras.

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.nongnu.org:/sources/hurdextras co <modulename> 

• httpfs translator

$ settrans -a tmp/ /hurd/httpfs www.hurd-project.com/

or

$ settrans -a tmp/ /hurd/httpfs www.hurd-project.com/ --proxy=<proxy> --port=<port>
$ cd tmp/
$ ls -l      

• ?ftpfs translator

$ settrans -cgap ftp /hurd/hostmux /hurd/ftpfs /
$ cd ftp
ftp$ ls
ftp$ cd ftp.fr.debian.org
ftp/ftp.fr.debian.org $ ls

• tarfs translator

You can use tarfs to mount (almost) any tar file (currently broken, 2010-08-25):

$ settrans -ca a /hurd/tarfs -z myfile.tar.gz
$ settrans -ca b /hurd/tarfs -y myfile.tar.bz2
$ settrans -ca c /hurd/tarfs myfile.tar

You can even use it to create new tar files:

$ settrans -ca new /hurd/tarfs -cz newfile.tar.gz
$ cp -r all my files  new/
$ syncfs new

This is not as fast as tar czvf newfile.tar.gz all my files, but at least it's more original.

• cvsfs translator

$ settrans -ac cvsfs_testing /hurd/cvsfs cvs.savannah.nongnu.org /sources/hurdextras
$ cd cvsfs_testing

• pfinet translator -- configuring your network interface

$ settrans -fgca /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i <interface> -a <ip address> -m <subnet mask> -g <gateway ip>

• Console translator -- setting up virtual consoles

$ console -d vga -d pc_mouse -d pc_kbd -d generic_speaker /dev/vcs

• ?iso9660fs translator -- 'mounting' your cdrom

$ settrans -ac /cdrom /hurd/iso9660fs /dev/<cdrom device file>      

• ext2fs translator -- 'mounting' an ext2fs partition

$ settrans -ac /linux /hurd/ext2fs /dev/<partition device file>   

• unionfs translator

To join "foo/" "bar/" and "baz/" in the directory "quux/", just do:

$ settrans -capfg quux/ /hurd/unionfs foo/ bar/ baz/

If you want to join even quux/ contents in the union itself, add -u as a translator argument. You can add filesystems at run-time with the fsysopts command.