Re: [9fans] gmail 0: messages

["Paweł Lasek" <pawel.lasek@gmail.com>]

On 12/9/05, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
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> You tell them that it's for all 9p speaking systems.   That includes linux
> now with v9fs, hopefully with Alan Cox [FreeBSD Alan Cox], anything that can
> use Tim Newsham's Python 9p implementation, etc. :)

A fast hack would be to port gmailfs from Linux/FUSE, as it uses not POP, but
Gmail WebAPI. As it's already an userspace fs, you would only have to
change FUSE-dependant layer and rework it to check "normal" e-mails
instead of
the ones it uses for file-storage.

> It's not as obscure as it once was.  I've seen talk of adding it to OpenBSD
> as well as a translation layer for DragonFlyBSD's native VFS messaging [well
> I proposed that one but god knows when I'll have time for that]

I see 9p more as a RPC/resource sharing system - I have a strong feeling
that I'd rather use sthg like AFS (if they implement files with size
>2GB) or other _fast_
network, file-oriented fs for my files (With driver using 9p as interface :D )

> Anyone interested in adding 9p to NetBSD? :)
>
> We'll just spread out like a virus and take over.  ;-)

Why not... just add it to windows, so you could use 9p mount disks...

And then I'd only have to write XFS/JFS/UFS2 for 9P and stop caring
about not having access to some files :D

> Dave

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