From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:06:15 +0000 From: jsnx Message-ID: <1187974477.312600.39680@r23g2000prd.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" References: <1187901241.757160.291890@x40g2000prg.googlegroups.com> Subject: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory Topicbox-Message-UUID: b161d91a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Aug 24, 3:55 am, leim...@gmail.com (David Leimbach) wrote: > On 8/24/07, jsnx wrote: > > On Aug 23, 3:35 am, st...@quintile.net (Steve Simon) wrote: > > > I'am not trolling, I just don't see their efficacy in plan9. > > I don't see how to architect the system I discussed without attributes. > Build yourself a file server that provides the environment you want with > attributes... don't inject it into the core system. Store it for real in > fossil files with a certain format. > > Done? If I want to have a system with the features of two distinct filesystems, what then? Attributes allow for composition, whereas the FS oriented approach appears not to. I would have to write (or obtain) a TeX fs, a SVN fs and then a TeX- SVN fs if I wanted to have those feature sets independently, if I am understanding you correctly.