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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:09:26 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9p vs http
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On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Sam Watkins <sam@nipl.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:20:00PM -0500, John Floren wrote:
>> Please see lsub's Op and my Streaming talk at the most recent IWP9.
>
> Ok, thanks. =A0I did not know that 9p has latency problems even when read=
ing a
> single file. =A0I was talking about pipelining, where you can ask the ser=
ver to
> send a dozen files or chunks all of metadata all in a single packet. =A0A=
s I
> said, I think this might be useful even within a site.
>
> Do you think http has any disadvantages compared to 9p?

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