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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:48:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d1b6ae48845e39e92c877a80ab35fba@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120817064829.GA492@polynum.com>

> The
> "getting dot-dot right" is precisely the problem that there are
> multiple paths, and only one is valid for a classical dir tree and
> you got to follow this one correct path back. Here, this multiplicity
> is simultaneously valid, and all the paths are the correct answer.

The question here is how to enhance the Unix-like hierarchical
directory to embrace multi-dimensionality.  I have no doubt that the
changes to 9P that will almost certainly be required for this will be
fairly obvious and from there building synthetic fileservers will not
be difficult.  I have a feeling that assuming that Plan 9 already has
the required silver bullet is a bad starting point.

++L




  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-17  7:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-03 17:18 tlaronde
2012-08-03 18:58 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2012-08-03 19:25   ` tlaronde
2012-08-03 21:08 ` Burton Samograd
2012-08-03 21:12   ` Kurt H Maier
2012-08-03 21:17     ` Burton Samograd
2012-08-04  6:13   ` tlaronde
2012-08-04 10:56     ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2012-08-04 15:00       ` tlaronde
2012-08-04 12:16 ` Nicolas Bercher
2012-08-04 15:20   ` tlaronde
2012-08-05 15:29     ` Charles Forsyth
2012-08-05 17:36       ` tlaronde
2012-08-15 16:04         ` Eugene Gorodinsky
2012-08-15 17:33           ` tlaronde
2012-08-15 20:09             ` Bakul Shah
2012-08-15 20:17               ` erik quanstrom
2012-08-15 21:00                 ` Bakul Shah
2012-08-16  1:38                   ` erik quanstrom
2012-08-16  4:06                     ` Bakul Shah
2012-08-16 13:45                       ` erik quanstrom
2012-08-15 21:27               ` tlaronde
2012-08-16  3:47                 ` Bakul Shah
2012-08-16  5:34                   ` tlaronde
2012-08-16 13:40                     ` erik quanstrom
2012-08-16 15:41                       ` tlaronde
2012-08-16 16:06                         ` erik quanstrom
2012-08-16 16:28                           ` tlaronde
2012-08-16 15:59                       ` Bakul Shah
2012-08-16 16:31                         ` tlaronde
2012-08-16 16:48                         ` Burton Samograd
2012-08-16 17:02                 ` Eugene Gorodinsky
2012-08-16 19:48                   ` tlaronde
2012-08-16 20:11                     ` erik quanstrom
2012-08-17  6:48                       ` tlaronde
2012-08-17  7:48                         ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2012-08-20 15:17                           ` tlaronde

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