From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60601230946l2f82933al8c9504bde81f4c4a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:46:17 -0800 From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] fuse bashing In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060123170614.07D331E8C37@holo.morphisms.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: e419f77c-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 1/23/06, C H Forsyth wrote: > > If you download a fuse distribution and look in > > kernel/fuse_kernel.h you can see the messages. > > which i did, to do a limbo version. > then i found that as i expected, they'd screwed up the exchange > between kernel and user level so that the same component didn't > work even between 64-bit and 32-bit environments on the same host, > let alone between hosts. ``right everybody, change protocols!'' > then i found that they couldn't get the interrupt > stuff working properly, so they ifdef'd it out and hacked it. > then i found ... > > after a time, one gets tired of reading badly-worked out > implementations of badly-thought out ideas. > > i don't care who was first. > the question is: what is right? > > they should have done a little `research' first, before jumping in there, > ``first one to the keyboard wins!'' > > DragonFlyBSD also is supposed to get VFS messaging.... but I think that will be the basis of the entire VFS, it's hard to say where they are now. I mentioned a few times on their list that they might want to at least look at 9P... and that people may be interested in writing DFly VFS->9P translation servers at some point. Not sure how well-received it all was. Dave