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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] book chapters
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 19:16:53 +0200
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why not just a write a file server that mounts itself on / and implements
whatever policy you'd like to dream up?  it would just implement the
policy, whatever that might be, and use the underlying filesystem to
store the bits.

isn't it just protocol conversion?