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From: Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] simplest disk filesystem
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:57:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140715225758.Horde.iORGNyvqfG0zHdsXGG9tug1@ssl.eumx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EE02BB5F-351A-450D-A2FE-5821649B4544@fb.com>

Quoting Yoann Padioleau <pad@fb.com>:

> I’m trying to make a tutorial explaining the code of a not too large kernel
> (9), but there are too many things to explain so I have to cut things.
> So having a simple fs which does not require to explain
> 9p, the rpc, the mount device, etc would be great.
> I know that explaining plan9 without 9p is kinda nonsense, but I would
> do that in another tutorial.

What is the motivation of choosing a distributed OS without wanting to
explain how distributed operating systems work?

khm




  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-15 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-15 17:53 Yoann Padioleau
2014-07-15 17:57 ` andrey mirtchovski
2014-07-15 18:05   ` Yoann Padioleau
2014-07-15 18:11     ` Lee Fallat
2014-07-15 18:12     ` David du Colombier
2014-07-16 17:17   ` erik quanstrom
2014-07-15 20:52 ` Brian L. Stuart
2014-07-15 21:18   ` Yoann Padioleau
2014-07-15 21:35     ` Brian L. Stuart
2014-07-15 22:57     ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2014-07-16 17:46       ` erik quanstrom
2014-07-16 18:10         ` Kurt H Maier
2014-07-16 18:17 sl
2014-07-16 18:41 ` Yoann Padioleau

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