From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3EC2369C.5020400@place.org> From: Stephen Wynne User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Using 9P(2000) in Unix/Linux(/Windows) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 05:29:16 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: aae75e40-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Russ Cox wrote: > * The model doesn't match the internal kernel structure > (it's a bad fit with the vnode layer) ... > * It fixes things that Unix doesn't want to fix (numeric uids) The same thing could be said for NFSv4, but it's moving ahead on the server. The client vnode layer doesn't encourage taking advantage of the optimization opportunities provided by COMPOUND, from what I understand. But Kerberos (via GSSAPI) and UTF user/group identifiers are core features. Of course implementations can't be nearly as simple as 9P in plan9.