From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Boris Maryshev <boris.maroshev@itcollege.ee>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] some light reading
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:24:23 +0300
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=81=D1=82 2004 03:00 andrey mirtchovski =D0=BD=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=81=D0=
=B0=D0=BB(a):
> > Yes, it is inefficient, but no more so than if you have a shell
> > which searches $PATH each time it runs a command.
>
> tim, i was being sarcastic :) 15 seconds for 40000 files and 2 seconds
> for 2000 binds is way better than what the guys in the comments
> expected (remember, they haven't seen a working prototype of union
> directories, at least not at userlevel, yet).
>
> however, i'd be very interested to see the way the linux guys optimize
> their kernel, shall they ever come to fully implement union
> directories as in Plan 9 (linux is about doing things better, isn't
> it?  remember the recent TLB flush flamewar :)
>
> andrey
Check out http://www.gobolinux.org/ You can try it on existing Linux machin=
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using their shell script or you can install it or run from cd. They also ha=
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some kernel module. Creator claims he's not clueless.

boris
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