From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8ccc8ba40708100847r356b5659xdc148dd69e71a712@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:47:29 +0200 From: nemo@lsub.org To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] synthetic filesystems and changing data In-Reply-To: <20070810151354.GB12549@kris.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46BBC396.9040009@ec.gc.ca> <46BC0A6D.9060404@proweb.co.uk> <46BC5AD2.8090109@ec.gc.ca> <20070810151354.GB12549@kris.home> Topicbox-Message-UUID: a42fcdd8-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 In cases where multiple clients might map to the same fid you can also freeze in a buffer file contents when the offset if zero, and serve from there for further reads. Using 9p (and no cache in the client) means that you can use the fid to mux the clients, and assign also a buffer per client, and release at clunk.