From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Cc: Subject: Re: [9fans] Observation about sharing network/grid In-Reply-To: <200310051801.h95I10j18787@augusta.math.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 13:42:19 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 606c07b6-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Dan Cross wrote: > Umm, who ever said import was transitive? It's the export of the import, and Plan 9 has transivity built into it. Just like NFS does. The transivity isn't in the control of the person doing the export to the next person doing the export. That makes it transitive. Once the person can get the bits they can send them out without the source even being aware (eg proxy). Further, without this sort of transivity the utility of grid computing (especially in a public sharing context) is pretty much nil. Among other things it causes way too much network traffic. -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu ravage@ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.com www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com