On Nov 11, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Uriel wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> operations like these (symlink, readlink, lock, etc.) that only have
>> significance at the extremities should not worry the transit relays.
>> that was the reason for Text/Rext proposal.
>>
>> regardless, interpretation of the ops in a hetergeneous environment
>> will be a problem.
>
> It is not a problem if the ops are Topen/Tread/Twrite (on an
> alternative attach), as agreed at the first iwp9,

I think this is a very nice idea. In fact that's what I'm trying to
implement
right now as part of my project to get around symlinks.

The only drawback that I can see so far is an unnecessary walk on
the parallel tree in cases where you need to actually *manipulate*
a symlink (reading, etc. is not a problem -- that gets handled on
the server and is fine for my purposes).

I though the mantra around here was "out-of-band == should be
on a separate channel".

Thanks,
Roman.