From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dave <dave@dave.tj>
Subject: Re: [9fans] blanks in file names
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
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Date: Mon,  8 Jul 2002 16:42:50 -0400
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Plan 9 still has identifier numbers provided by the filesystem server.
We can toss or change those at some point in the future (increasing the
identifier's size, for instance, or adding a supplementary identifier)
if we identify files using linked structures.

 - Dave


forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk wrote:
> 
> >>Finally, it gives us the capability of getting away from even the most
> >>elementary requirements in a filesystem (like inodes) at some point in
> >>the future without extensive code changes.  Basically, it's all about
> 
> Plan 9 hasn't really got assumptions about inodes.  9P doesn't use them.
> (makes it tricky to do NFS, as it happens, though that's not Plan 9's fault
> this time.)
>