Re: [9fans] Python filesystem

[Skip Tavakkolian <skipt@real.com>]

I was assuming that releases would all be under one directory. I see that
it is flawed.

At 08:37 AM 11/29/2001 +0100, Boyd Roberts wrote:
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>> CVS or a derivative thereof, should be a filesystem. It seems to me that
>> something like ftpfs is very close to what a CVS fs could be.
>
>It should probably be a filesystem, but nothing like ftpfs.  FTP
>is there to copy files.  CVS is just a meta RCS which is not a good
>thing.  RCS is useful and simple but it's useless if you want to use
>it for serial #'s in DNS zone files (SCCS is great for that, but not
>good for much else).
>
>I think /n/dump needs a layer or a concept of grouping a chunk of stuff
>together which constitutes a release.  Now, let's not go mad and go the
>whole hog as Vesta did.
>
>One day they found a serious design flaw in Vesta -- it ran out of space,
>apart from he fact it was excruciatingly slow.  Instead of building a list
>of things to blow away [failsafe] it built a list of things to keep.  The
>trouble was that the 'list' was written to a file, but the file-system(s)
>were full -- so, it created the null list of things to keep.
>
>This resulted in that it went ahead and it started to delete everything.
>
>FYI: Vesta was a project from SRC.  It sort of did /n/dump but instead
>     of bind-ing the universe together it would just re-create it from
>     scratch -- ouch.
>
>     Vesta may have been able to re-create the universe in small n days,
>     but it was extremely efficient in destroying in fewer.
>
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