From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <416D004F.4010901@9fs.org> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:15:43 +0100 From: Nigel Roles User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] g9fs References: <168a6a4451bdc5af460d73f112c2d1ef@quintile.net> In-Reply-To: <168a6a4451bdc5af460d73f112c2d1ef@quintile.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: ed0c0558-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Steve Simon wrote: >>I am tempted to have a go, unless Rob or >>Dave has written it already that is... >> >>-Steve >> >> > >On closer inspection the code that exists was written >by reverse engineering packet snifs, and though this can >be fun, in my experience it is often depressing - >unpublished protocols being liable to change. > >-Steve > > > What? You mean those clever chaps at Google aren't providing a service for freeloaders, and might even have anticipated people trying to use them as in-network storage? Perish the thought.