From: "Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:49:18 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32d987d51003271049x706f7e70u43da92b2e5baf84@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.64.1003270644190.23363@malasada.lava.net>
; grep $pattern /dist/replica/client/*.db
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net> wrote:
>> enough. We say we deal with it with namespaces, but the bindings on a
>> freshly-installed Plan 9 box already make a much longer list than any $PATH
>> I can imagine!
>
> but you don't have a LD_LIBRARY_PATH, a MANPTH, or any number of
> other search paths. Or symlinks. What is the total length of all
> of your paths plus symlinks?
>
> Also, is the size of the namespace list an issue?
>
>> I'm thinking over the idea that we're bumping up against the practical
>> limits of hierarchal file systems as a means for organising stuff, but I've
>> no idea what else might work.
>
> Google's approach is not to bother sorting things out. Use searches
> to find data you want. You can still do some sorting in things like
> gmail, but you don't need to.
>
> Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com
>
>
--
Federico G. Benavento
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-27 17:49 UTC|newest]
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2010-03-25 11:49 tlaronde
2010-03-25 13:37 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-25 15:31 ` tlaronde
2010-03-25 15:36 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 1:07 ` EBo
2010-03-25 16:03 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-25 18:11 ` lucio
2010-03-25 19:05 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-25 19:36 ` lucio
2010-03-25 19:42 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 0:52 ` EBo
2010-03-26 1:36 ` Jacob Todd
2010-03-26 2:05 ` ron minnich
2010-03-26 5:02 ` EBo
2010-03-26 5:52 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-26 13:33 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 5:59 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-03-26 6:09 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-26 6:12 ` EBo
2010-03-26 6:24 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-26 7:08 ` EBo
2010-03-26 13:24 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 13:09 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 16:45 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 16:55 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 17:00 ` ron minnich
2010-03-26 17:12 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 17:10 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 17:13 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 17:15 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 17:21 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 17:31 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 17:36 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 17:56 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 18:44 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 18:57 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 21:17 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-26 21:30 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 21:49 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-26 17:31 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-26 17:34 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 21:15 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-26 21:32 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 22:37 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-27 4:32 ` lucio
2010-03-27 17:39 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-27 22:37 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 16:56 ` ron minnich
2010-03-26 17:05 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 21:50 ` tlaronde
2010-03-27 4:15 ` lucio
2010-03-27 7:53 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-27 8:40 ` lucio
2010-03-27 9:30 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-27 13:41 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-27 13:08 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-03-27 11:20 ` tlaronde
2010-03-28 13:17 ` [9fans] Man pages for add-ons: pax? tlaronde
2010-03-28 13:20 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-28 18:39 ` hiro
2010-03-26 17:05 ` [9fans] Man pages for add-ons Anthony Sorace
2010-03-26 20:21 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-27 16:46 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-27 16:54 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-27 17:58 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-27 18:09 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] ` <f4d8fa41003271132k7d7e839fk78999c75ddf4b6af@mail.gmail.com>
2010-03-27 18:33 ` hiro
2010-03-27 23:45 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-28 0:39 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-27 23:56 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-28 0:45 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-28 0:52 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-28 0:55 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-28 1:02 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-28 19:06 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-28 19:36 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-28 20:04 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-28 22:59 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-28 23:28 ` hiro
2010-03-29 0:59 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-29 2:11 ` Iruata Souza
2010-03-29 9:07 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-29 11:29 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-29 12:14 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-29 12:41 ` Connor Lane Smith
2010-03-29 13:05 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-29 13:23 ` Connor Lane Smith
2010-03-29 13:58 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-29 19:29 ` Georg Lehner
2010-03-29 22:35 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-29 14:14 ` blstuart
2010-03-29 1:00 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-27 17:49 ` Federico G. Benavento [this message]
2010-03-28 18:56 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-28 20:09 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-28 21:27 ` Jacob Todd
2010-03-25 14:07 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-25 15:48 ` tlaronde
2010-03-26 2:02 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-26 2:04 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-29 10:12 Hiro
2010-03-29 12:33 Hiro
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