From: Dave Lukes <davel@anvil.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] alright, this should be interesting
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:39:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <120ECA23-2228-11D9-9370-000D9336F3FE@anvil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a76b0196919adf24433d31c414f2b326@terzarima.net>
> (``they said i was daft to build
> castle on swamp, but i built it all the same, just to show them'').
> mind you, i suppose that's essentially what is done when an effective
> distributed system is built on top of lots of cheap components that
> often break down and fall into the swamp.
Well ... you haven't quite extended the analogy far enough.
The distributed system is city built on a large raft floating on the
swamp,
so if some odd bits fall off and some peasants die: so what?
As long as either
a) there's enough distributed control (it's a
democracy/anarchy/whatever) or
b) the central part of the raft containing the castle (i.e. the grid
controller or whatever)
is built on huge mushroom pilings, so it never falls into the swamp,
the city(system) will keep on functioning.
I can't believe I'm sending an email to 9fans talking about mushroom
pilings.
Can we get back to plan9, before I start ranting about shield anchors,
please?
DaveL.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-19 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-05 17:36 andrey mirtchovski
2004-10-06 1:07 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-10-06 1:25 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-10-06 5:25 ` geoff
2004-10-06 7:52 ` C H Forsyth
2004-10-18 16:05 ` Leo Caves
2004-10-19 2:50 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-10-19 15:44 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-19 15:57 ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-19 19:45 ` Tim Newsham
2004-10-19 21:22 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-19 22:47 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-10-19 23:39 ` Dave Lukes [this message]
2004-10-20 3:25 ` Tim Newsham
2004-10-20 9:46 ` Steve Simon
2004-10-20 14:20 ` Russ Cox
2004-10-20 19:47 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-20 20:29 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-20 20:41 ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-21 1:31 ` Tim Newsham
2004-10-21 16:19 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-19 23:17 ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-20 4:01 ` Tim Newsham
2004-10-20 4:19 ` Russ Cox
2004-10-20 4:27 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-10-20 6:23 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-10-20 7:36 ` Nigel Roles
2004-10-20 11:20 ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-20 12:36 ` Nigel Roles
2004-10-20 13:45 ` Brantley Coile
2004-10-24 5:33 ` Dan Cross
2004-10-24 11:53 ` Tiit Lankots
2004-10-24 13:44 ` Brantley Coile
2004-10-25 11:23 ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-20 17:06 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-10-22 7:12 ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-22 19:02 ` Jason Gurtz
2004-10-23 1:27 ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-20 18:40 ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-20 20:16 ` Nigel Roles
2004-10-20 20:46 ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-20 19:59 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-20 20:02 ` Russ Cox
2004-10-20 20:05 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2004-10-20 20:25 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-10-20 20:48 ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-21 18:36 ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-21 4:47 ` William Josephson
2004-10-20 20:44 ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-23 18:54 ` Dan Cross
2004-10-20 11:13 ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-20 11:09 ` Dave Lukes
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