From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:31:57 +0100 From: bmaroshe@itcollege.ee Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme mailreader - now: User mode filesystems in linux To: Russ Cox , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <1e45f22a0f.22a0f1e45f@itcollege.ee> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1a08930a-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > You're stuck with the operating system you have, > not the operating system you'd like to have. If one were > designing the system from scratch one could always do > better. Sadly this Coda discussion is about how to deal with > what's already available on Unix. So in your opinion it's better to design systems from scratch than to try to bring good ideas to kludgey ancient systems? boris