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Re:Deprecate FTP support (deprecated) by wazoox on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @04:57PM (#24781507)
Cross-sending is called FXP in video and is(was?) used extensively by all broadcasters, TV channels, etc. So much that it's a must-have functionality for any storage system in this domain.
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Re:Deprecate FTP support (deprecated) by mobilemidget on Thursday October 15, 2020 @03:59AM (#24786028)
I remember it more from the times when illegal releases were raced to ftp servers to be downloaded by everybody, pre torrent.
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Re:Deprecate FTP support (deprecated) by jasonjayr on Thursday October 15, 2020 @01:16AM (#24785164)
Given SFTP is ssh based, it seems like it could support agent forwarding + an FXP-like mechanism to jump from server to Server w/o transferring to the controlling host ...
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