note snoopy On the heavy side, [mod://Fuse::Simple] lets you map a file system to Perl hashes. <p> FUSE is implemented at the OS level rather than being Perl specific. it doesn't require root access, but does need a server process (or at least a thread). <p/> The files are really mounted and are visible to Perl and other processes. It's a deeper abstraction which may or may not be what you want. <p> As a final catch, the underlaying [mod://Fuse] module claims to only work well under Linux or BSD. FUSE however is widely available on other platforms, including Windows. <p> I just thought it might be of interest. See also the wikipedia entry <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace">Filesystem_in_Userspace.</a> 886541 886541