From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
From: "Brian L. Stuart" <blstuart@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] hacking issue: memory resizing 
In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 9 Sep 2005 22:46:20 +0200 .
	<600308d605090913461de1965@mail.gmail.com> 
Date: Fri,  9 Sep 2005 21:16:48 -0500
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In message <600308d605090913461de1965@mail.gmail.com>, Francisco Ballesteros wr
ites:
> You have just files and services (including devices). You want your
>laptop (or PDA) to work standalone, but you still want the stateless terminal
>that Plan 9 provides (so you have to administer just one or a few machines).
>To me, it seems  that replicating (sort of caching, like in coda) your FS into
>your standalone machines is the easy way to do that. The only inconvenience

As it turns out, I've been playing around with some ideas in
that direction.  I've got a rough prototype in Plan 9 and a
slightly less rough one in Linux using FUSE.  I didn't like
coda's special server code, so I took the approach of keeping
two trees synchronized.  That way you can connect to the file
server you're caching with 9P or NFS or SMB or...  It's been
proving handy allowing my laptop to cache stuff from work
and stuff from home at the same time.  Hopefully, I'll get
company permission to release the code soon.

BLS