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From: "John E. Barham" <jbarham@jbarham.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Distributed filesystems:  Plan 9 vs. Linux
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Date: Mon,  1 Mar 2004 09:14:20 -0800
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> If for some reason you can't go with a Plan 9 solution, you might want
> to check out The Handle System (http://www.handle.net/).  Come to think
> of it, adding hdl support to Plan 9 might be a nice project on it's
> own.

Well, at this point using Plan 9 is really not feasible since we already
have a substantial production system in place w/ dependencies that Plan 9
doesn't provide.

The Handle System looks pretty close to what we need.  My major concern
would be that it runs on Java (e.g., that "What do I do if I get a Java
out-of-memory error?" is a FAQ does not inspire confidence...)

    John