Re: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory

["David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

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On 8/24/07, jsnx <jason.dusek@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Aug 23, 3:35 am, st...@quintile.net (Steve Simon) wrote:
> > I'am not trolling, I just don't see their efficacy in plan9.
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> I don't see how to architect the system I discussed without attributes.
>

I can...

Build yourself a file server that provides the environment you want with
attributes... don't inject it into the core system.  Store it for real in
fossil files with a certain format.

Done?

Plan 9's ability to have synthetic filesystems seems to do away with the
need to change the way the core filesystems work.

If you need the filesystem to behave or to have different semantics it can
clearly be done.  Seen  the TCP interface for instance?  sshnet?  Sure
sometimes we have to make small compromises in the way the system works to
achieve some new functionality, but when we do, we seem to be buying a lot
for our trade up.  (my understanding is sshnet did require some changes to
the way the system worked before sshnet was proposed.)

Plan 9 seems to have always been about trying to solve problems in a way
that's simpler than the way things seem to have turned out in Linux/Unix
etc.

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