From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:11:19 -0500 To: eris.discordia@gmail.com, 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <9cc55e0ca7b2b480446914487f33b6df@coraid.com> In-Reply-To: <473357B91DA2FB749BBEB805@[192.168.1.2]> References: <473357B91DA2FB749BBEB805@[192.168.1.2]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4001853e-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Why shouldn't there be file "types" to > help better represent the details of an underlying resource? you of course know that the big difference in unix and other systems of the day was that files did not have type. this allowed a tools-based approach which was popular for many years. - erik