From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60908130727h53b56764v7effe03b711140ae@mail.gmail.com> References: <09943c0ba14c52535a710d952cfe0e75@coraid.com> <3e1162e60908130727h53b56764v7effe03b711140ae@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:41:52 +0200 Message-ID: <5d375e920908132041r5f6d2662o869b96883f30ba18@mail.gmail.com> From: Uriel To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Thrift RPC Topicbox-Message-UUID: 48ca8fe8-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:27 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > On 8/13/09, erik quanstrom wrote: >>> we don't use te*xt for 9p, do we? >> >> the difference being, 9p is the transport not >> the representation of the data and 9p has >> a fixed set of messages. >> > > Also 9p aims at file systems pretty obviously where Thirft is a > generic RPC mechanism with stub compilers for bindings for several > languages. > > I have not been able to convince coworkers that filesystem namespaces > are the way to go. =C2=A0I think they think it is too hard. > > *shrug* =C2=A0you 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