Re: [9fans] Dual dialing/forking sessions to increase 9P throughput

[hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>]

that doesn't make any sense.
9p already allows you to access many parts of the file at the same time...

On 1/4/21, joe@lifesoftserv.com <joe@lifesoftserv.com> wrote:
> Might be more than it is worth but what if you made a small program/file
> server that addressed portions of the "larger" file as their own file in a
> temporary directory. On write you would have to preallocate the file on the
> disk and write eatch section to it's respective range. "Chunks" would be
> simplified by having a pre-copy size and a "Chunk number" appended on the
> end of each chunk. Used to write to the correct location in the destination.
> Everything in else could remain the same. You would just use the "Split/Bulk
> Copy" program to copy from source to destination. Getting better with plan9
> but not enough so to implement something like this or know if it would work.
> Just a thought.

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