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.