Re: [9fans] Upspin - a respin of 9p?

[Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>]

The overview doc says the data source can be other than a file. A camera or twitter feed for example. What seems to be missing is the namespace splicing (no bind or mount). There is also some talk of IoT sources.

Need to think through this but conceptually I don't see a problem adding this 9p feature back within the same architecture.... A thought experiment worth doing.

Even for serving named live data decoupling data source/sink from naming can have value. You should even be able to use a name to take advantage of an underlying CDN! Or a content tree ala Usenet. E.g. Not all data is directly served from your camera but from a content delivery network so scaling is not an issue.

But I need to first read and understand what all they've done!

> On Feb 23, 2017, at 1:00 AM, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't think it's a reworking of 9P.
> It's closer to an older style of distributed file system, closer to Amoeba's or the Cambridge Distributed System,
> and using full-content storage operations on content accessed through a separate and global name service.
> 9P (and relatives) allow a huge assortment of surprisingly different service types to be represented and accessed in a uniform way,
> where conventional file storage is easily the least interesting service.
> (That isn't a criticism: both this and 9P-like things have their place.)
>