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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] The 9grid.
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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 15:49:33 +0200
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> caching and resource discovery are on the table, but i'm not sure i can talk
> about that right now... ('ls' sounds much simpler than 'LDAP' though, doesn't
> it? :)

distributed caching is nasty.  SRC had a filesystem that tried to do that, but
it looked like it would fall into some combinatoric nightmare.

then there is the great story of the garbage collection one day on a full
V-something filesystem -- hysterical ...