From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4926C6E2.5050900@proweb.co.uk> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:34:10 +0000 From: matt User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.14eol (X11/20080724) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <3d61afbea6c3d54d8371a08214902949@9netics.com> <4926A19F.9030409@proweb.co.uk> <326364c20811210601s14485430x386788a4205da23b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <326364c20811210601s14485430x386788a4205da23b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] web-based plan 9? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4eb5e84a-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> I split my system into two - one to deal with the SQL and one that makes a >> FS tree from columnated data. Though I abandoned dev on the tree because I >> just ended up accessing the data through the Limbo pg module directly. >> > > How was the data more outdated than when you used pg directly? > > It's not that is was more outdated, it's that all the extra work to make it an FS was untapped because instead of writing a Limbo app to use a file system I ended up just adding the PGmodule to the app instead. I realise that exporting and mounting would be facilitated by the FS layer but I didn't have any reason to exploit such availablility. Basically I got as far as saying to myself - this will buy me nothing more than I have already so I'll just stop, one fo these days I might do the FS side of it, maybe.