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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9p server to multiply 9p messages?
Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 00:19:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <548D3C1F-DFCC-4DCE-AB37-3CA48997AE69@iitbombay.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AC0D3717011B2BD6C0606D9B5AB748DB@eigenstate.org>

On May 29, 2022, at 10:01 PM, ori@eigenstate.org wrote:
> 
> the challenge is that 9p is stateful, so all servers must
> replay the same messages in the same order; this means that
> if one of the replicas fails or returns a result that is not
> the same as the other, the front falls off.
> 
> this means mirroring messages naïvely reduces reliability
> and performance, rather than increasing it.

I was not thinking of mirroring.

I was thinking of ckustered or distributed systems like
CephFS, IPFS, GlusterFS etc but thinking a cleaner &
simpler design might be possible. But it is quite possible
my brainstorm/pipedream is not realistic!

9p itself is low performance but that is a separate issue.
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-30  7:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-28 16:02 fgergo
2022-05-28 18:43 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2022-05-28 19:21   ` ron minnich
2022-05-29 10:33     ` fgergo
2022-05-29 10:23   ` fgergo
2022-05-29 11:41     ` fgergo
2022-05-29 23:16 ` Bakul Shah
2022-05-30  4:59   ` ori
2022-05-30  7:19     ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2022-05-30  8:03       ` fgergo
2022-05-30  8:35       ` hiro
2022-05-31 16:14       ` ron minnich
2022-05-31 18:27         ` hiro
2022-05-31 18:35           ` ori
2022-06-01 12:00           ` ron minnich
2022-06-01 14:51             ` ori
2022-06-01 15:31             ` hiro
2022-06-01 15:39               ` hiro
2022-06-01 16:01             ` ori
2022-06-01  4:26         ` Bakul Shah
2022-06-01  7:25           ` hiro
2022-06-01 15:55           ` Jacob Moody
2022-06-01 17:56             ` Steve Simon
2022-06-01 22:29               ` hiro
2022-05-30  8:33     ` hiro

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