From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10811112058q5f54d697x80152b170524a296@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:58:29 -0800 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <140e7ec30811111811i15f2e2bp3761d477e6c90aed@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1226365206.17713.390.camel@goose.sun.com> <29302f743a99f05c1d9ac196b0245f81@9netics.com> <5d375e920811110830k1c91a401y5e6f39f1737d4240@mail.gmail.com> <140e7ec30811110954u44f8f9aeg788dc34b7d35ac69@mail.gmail.com> <140e7ec30811111811i15f2e2bp3761d477e6c90aed@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3e658d38-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:11 PM, sqweek wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:54 AM, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: >> I have two measurements of success: >> a) what keeps me working on Plan 9 related technologies in a paid position >> b) what switches people from using NFS, GPFS, or other horribly >> complicated solutions to something closer to Plan 9 > > Fair enough. Does .L still qualify as "closer to Plan 9", or is it > NFS by any other name? well it's pretty different from NFS. > Please excuse the inflammatory phrasing - that's an honest question. > I'm very ignorant about NFS and its differences from 9p, other than > the number of message types. They're utterly different, at every level. Yes, they give you a similar service, but ... ron