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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:09:38 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology
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> Do you mean what is being referred to below as "worm HDD":
>
> http://www.storagesearch.com/view64.html

this instead: http://www.plasmon.com/archive_solutions/udodrives.html
or a bd+r.

for cost reasons, this isn't that practical anymore.

> I think that I'm also getting confused with the use of the term
> "server". I've just beens listening to Tanenbaum:

a "file server" is anything that takes the server side in a 9p conversation.
this could be a dedicated appliance (ken's file server), a device driver
(say, #æ, the aoe driver) or a user program.  there are no assumptions
about how, where or what transport protocol is used.

- erik