From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:06:11 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] 9P optimization In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20070624030145.P1471@orthanc.ca> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8676d354-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > It would be fun to modify cfs to have a couple of cache coherency algorithms, > the timeout you describe could be one, Boyds ftp cache rule is also interesting - > the timeout value is proportional to how long ago the file was last written, so > old files tend to be stable. I loath the idea of pushing state into 9P, but I wonder if a combination of client side cfs with a kqueue-like 'file is modified' server event might not solve most of the problem. Layered into aan perhaps? --lyndon What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.