From: matt <maht-9fans@maht0x0r.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Thrift RPC
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:19:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A856462.90207@maht0x0r.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d375e920908132041r5f6d2662o869b96883f30ba18@mail.gmail.com>
>>
>>I have not been able to convince coworkers that filesystem namespaces
>>are the way to go. I think they think it is too hard.
>>
>>*shrug* you can lead a horse...
>>
>>
>
>Funny, the problem I usually have is that people think file systems
>are *too simple*, oh, no data types other than *byte stream* and
>*drectory*, and no type checking! We are all going to die!
>
>People seem to have trouble believing something simple can do a job
>that they have convinced themselves needs to be very complicated.
>
>uriel
>
>
>
The point being that for most people, writing the FS is the hard part no ?
The java 9p server was interesting in that it served functions as
files. I think we need a few more thinga like that where we can begin to
stop thinking about the 9p part when designing a service
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-14 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-13 3:33 Roman Shaposhnik
2009-08-13 3:49 ` Tim Newsham
2009-08-13 4:33 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-08-13 3:56 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-13 6:49 ` Daniel Lyons
2009-08-13 10:01 ` Uriel
2009-08-14 4:58 ` Nate S
2009-08-13 8:33 ` Richard Miller
2009-08-13 8:42 ` roger peppe
2009-08-13 13:43 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-13 14:27 ` David Leimbach
2009-08-13 15:06 ` roger peppe
2009-08-14 3:41 ` Uriel
2009-08-14 13:19 ` matt [this message]
2009-08-17 15:27 ` David Leimbach
2009-08-17 15:44 ` ron minnich
2009-08-17 15:58 ` David Leimbach
2009-08-14 19:08 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
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