On Mar 24, 2005, at 20:18, Tom Lazar wrote:
some other posters here have started using the term 'remote mountpoint' or somesuch - that's beginning to nail the idea for me.
Interarchy simulates this and I think FTPeel has something they call magic mirrors, which in name does sound like the functionality, although more a mirror of the remote site with automatic synchronizing, and not really just mounting the remote site (but I haven't tried the program, I just saw it at their web-page).