From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200104092331.AAA05616@localhost.localdomain> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] micro vs monolithic kernels In-Reply-To: Message from "John A. Murdie" of "Mon, 09 Apr 2001 15:33:15 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Steve Kilbane Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 00:31:55 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7c8dadc6-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 The impression I've had is that the architecture of the system was what was interesting: 9P, namespaces and union directories. The manner of implementation seemed to be of far less interest. "The presentation centers on the data structures, because that is how the program was designed, and because the algorithms are easy to provide, given the right data structures." -rob, from the Sam paper. steve