How to model file system operations with REST?

Question

There are obvious counterparts for some of file systems\' basic operations (eg. ls and rm), but how would you implement not straightforwardly RESTf

Answer 1

One way to do this is to formulate your PUT/POST requests such that you can either give the actual data or give the URL of the resource, possibly with the option to make a hard or symbolic link. If the given URL is hosted on your own system, then you can simply point internally to the same file, possibly keeping a bit for "copy-on-write" or something along those lines in order to make it efficient.