Re: [9fans] clarification on man 9p

[Gorka Guardiola <paurea@gmail.com>]

There is a version that is. Its source is with the library.

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Curiosity sKilled the cat

G.

On Oct 3, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Fernan Bolando <fernanbolando@mailc.net>
wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>>> "In general, the File interface is appropriate for maintaining
>>> arbitrary file trees (as in ramfs). The File interface is best
>>> avoided
>>> when the tree structure is easily generated as necessary; this is
>>> true
>>> when the tree is highly structured (as in cdfs and nntpfs) or is
>>> maintained elsewhere."
>>>
>>> Is this referring to avoiding the usage of createfile and friends in
>>> 9pfile.h for highly structured trees?
>>
>> Yes.  You can look at the named examples to see
>> the alternative.  My experience has been, well, what
>> it says in the man page: the File interface was an
>> interesting idea but is rarely useful.
>>
>
> I understand, what confused me was that ramfs is not using File/
> createfile.
> So even though ramfs could have taken advantage of the createfile
> tools it didn't. why?
>
> The only fileserver that I found that was actually using createfile
> is rdbfs.
>
> regards
> fernan
>
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