From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5d375e920712121149l4b26877dobdd663497fd0eb05@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:49:19 -0500 From: Uriel To: weigelt@metux.de, "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Paper on 9P and synthetic filesystems In-Reply-To: <20071212115929.GA31954@nibiru.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071212115929.GA31954@nibiru.local> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 163fe822-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 There are a few here: http://cm.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Papers/index.html Probably from those there, the closest to what you want could be: The Ubiquitous File Server in Plan 9 by C. H. Forsyth and Distributed Computing With Plan 9 by Sape Mullender and Dave Presotto. uriel On Dec 12, 2007 6:59 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Hi folks, > > is there any paper which shows the benefits of synthetic filesystems > for application software development ? > > I'd like to show people in several other projects (eg. moz) why > it's good to split large applications into several subsystems > speaking to each other via synthetic filesystems (eg. instead > of individual IPC mechanisms). > > thx > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: > http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce > Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: > http://patches.metux.de/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >