From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d190811081419q72ba6124x6766dc0c1a9e387d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 00:19:04 +0200 From: "Bruce Ellis" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <32A32480-526D-4AA7-BC78-EADFFC276233@sun.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1226108725.17713.153.camel@goose.sun.com> <602d022987958658e5d9467747b97ed5@quanstro.net> <8ccc8ba40811080411h4a47a1x41178094552578c2@mail.gmail.com> <32A32480-526D-4AA7-BC78-EADFFC276233@sun.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 369572f8-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I wrote a functional 9P S3 client but it just seemed silly in the end. Buy a few T of disk and fossil+venti and it's over. Even aging kenfs will do. brucee On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > On Nov 8, 2008, at 4:11 AM, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: >> >> It seems that MS is pushing webdav hard. > > True. But it is not MS that worries me in this particular case. At least > they don't have anything to offer yet. This: > http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/2006-03-01/ > on the other hand, seems to be getting a lot of traction. As in > "people are using it right now" kind of traction. > > I wish these guys provided 9P as one of the options to access their > remote storage resources, but, of course, they don't. And why > would they -- FUSE can handle whatever they have perfectly well. > > Thus, the letter of the "remote resource access via FS semantics" > law seems to be perfectly fine, while the spirit, of course, is hopelessly > broken. > > Thanks, > Roman. > >