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From: Steve Simon <steve@savan.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Installing the updates
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:10:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3985DD18.10852D0E@savan.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000731173818.23498.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu>

Scott Schwartz wrote:
[snip]
> 
> (With some more preparation you could write a fileserver that just
> interposed itself at the root of a subtree, and let the originals
> show through.)
> 
[snip]

I always liked the idea of a small cache file system like that used on
The fs.

A user could have the distribution source on a CDROM and view it via a
cache file
server. This would store only the files that have changed - using copy
on write.
I suspose this could be extended to storing only the blocks that have
changed, or
even file diff(1) output, or wrap(8) file even...

I'am not sure if this is interesting or hedious :-)

-Steve


  reply	other threads:[~2000-07-31 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <djhender@telusplanet.net>
2000-07-31 14:53 ` Doug Henderson
2000-07-31 17:38   ` Scott Schwartz
2000-07-31 20:10     ` Steve Simon [this message]
2000-07-31 15:15 rob pike
2000-08-01  8:53 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-01 12:12   ` Howard Trickey
2000-08-02  9:11     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-01 14:31   ` Ralph Corderoy
2000-08-01 16:03     ` Greg Hudson
2000-08-01 16:32       ` James A. Robinson
2000-08-01 17:05         ` James A. Robinson
2000-08-02  9:39       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-02  9:11     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-03 14:51     ` ozan s. yigit
2000-07-31 15:57 jmk
2000-07-31 17:09 Russ Cox
2000-08-01  5:42 Russ Cox
2000-08-01  6:04 Russ Cox
2000-08-01 12:55 rob pike
2000-08-02  9:39 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-01 13:06 rob pike
2000-08-01 13:10 ` Lucio De Re
2000-08-01 13:35 rob pike
2000-08-01 18:34 ` Greg Hudson
2000-08-02  9:53 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-01 16:26 rob pike
2000-08-02 21:49 ` Steve Simon
2000-08-01 16:27 rob pike
2000-08-02 10:53 ` Ralph Corderoy
2000-08-01 17:06 Russ Cox
2000-08-02  8:32 ` Bruce G. Stewart
2000-08-02  9:47 forsyth
2000-08-02  9:52 ` Boyd Roberts

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