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From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] v9fs release
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:50:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211272348230.29602-100000@carotid.ccs.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <251af139867051dfb250abc2fae420b3@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp>

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote:

> As a Linux user, I'm interested in your 9p port.   However, when I compare
> Linux and Plan 9, the most scared thing of Linux to me is that I must
> have large local disk for local Linux OS for every desktop machines.

yup. But our 1024-node cluster has one (1) disk. And no NFS roots or other
bad ideas :-) So you can nuke that local disk. Can you do that for
desktops? I think so.

> Anyway, if v9fs can replace NFS, it's nice to us, Linux users.

There are some tricky problems however, but we're working them.
9p is definitely not NFS ... that is good but makes life "interesting".

> Kenji   -- Am I hitting you?

no, you are saying stuff I agree with :-)

ron



  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-28  6:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-28  3:17 okamoto
2002-11-28  6:50 ` Ronald G. Minnich [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-28  6:58 Russ Cox
2002-11-28 16:50 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2002-11-28 18:02   ` Greg Watson
2002-11-28 18:19     ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-28 19:39       ` Greg Watson
2002-11-29  1:00       ` Ronald G. Minnich
2002-11-29  2:31         ` Jim Choate
2002-11-29 13:37           ` matt
2002-11-29 14:08         ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-29 17:07           ` Ronald G. Minnich
2002-11-27 22:44 Geoff Collyer
2002-11-27 21:34 Keith Nash
2002-11-27 22:28 ` Ronald G. Minnich

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