From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:29:01 -0800 From: Roman Shaposhnik Subject: Re: [9fans] Easiest way to make a filesystem In-reply-to: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <1200346141.4308.710.camel@work.sfbay.sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <326364c20801140111v1bf9b574p80ea0305edf09c14@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2e572a4c-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 20:10 +0000, roger peppe wrote: > i agree that it's too hard to create servers for simple filesystems. > > i've been wondering on and off for years what a "low-bar-to-entry" filesystem > creating library might look like, and my current thoughts go something like: I've been thinking about the same thing for quite some time now (and don't you suspect that I have any real suggestions here, more like a bunch of pet peeves). I guess my personal feeling of cognitive dissonance comes from the fact that I can do pretty much anything in Plan9 in a more or less simple shell script, but I can't easily "share" the service of the shell scripts via namespace abstraction. Thanks, Roman.