From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <600308d605090913461de1965@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 22:46:20 +0200 From: Francisco Ballesteros To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] hacking issue: memory resizing In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050909145216.4691A106B2F@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> <4321A7E3.1040106@lanl.gov> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 862277de-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hmm. It seems to me that the platform you are talking about is exactly the kind of environment that I think about. What=B4s the difference? I must be missing something. You have just files and services (including devices). You want your laptop (or PDA) to work standalone, but you still want the stateless termin= al that Plan 9 provides (so you have to administer just one or a few machines)= . To me, it seems that replicating (sort of caching, like in coda) your FS i= nto your standalone machines is the easy way to do that. The only inconvenience that I see in Plan 9 is that when the environment is too dynamic you have to do many things by hand; but that can be fixed. Regarding aliens (Linux, etc.), if you can combine storage and services between all your systems, you end up thinking that you have a single system. > So the big question here is -- what would a more modern environment be, > and what could plan9 (or a system like it) do to fit in better. Plan B > looks like its addressing this issue in one sense (although perhaps not i= n > the type of environment I would typically use computers in today). > there and what environment do people think is reasonable? Seems like > everyone has several fast machines, many of them mobile, often being > disconnected from one network and attached to another (or used > disconnected). Often people want a filesystem and cpu server on their > portable platform. There are lots of small ultra-mobile platforms. Energ= y > use is more a concern than it was before. >=20 > Tim Newsham > http://www.lava.net/~newsham/ >