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Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 17:31:06 -0700
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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] sources down?
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On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Anant Narayanan <anant@kix.in> wrote:
> On 24-May-09, at 2:17 AM, ron minnich wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> There are plenty of mirrors, I'm pretty sure the "sources is down
>>> AGAIN" comments could be mitigated by people improving their 9fs
>>> scripts.
>>
>> would be interesting to have a server that provided reliability by
>> using whatever mirrors are out there and falling over transparently as
>> things failed.
>
> This approach relies on said server being up all the time. Much easier to
> fix client-side 9fs scripts :)

Sorry, by "server" I did not mean "a server machine" I meant "a 9p
server program which you could run"

ron