From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] book chapters
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 11:19:58 -0600
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, boyd, rounin wrote:

> why not just a write a file server that mounts itself on / and implements
> whatever policy you'd like to dream up?  it would just implement the
> policy, whatever that might be, and use the underlying filesystem to
> store the bits.
>
> isn't it just protocol conversion?


I was wondering if you could even implement the data and resources forks
with 9p. The file would be somefile, with the actual data as
somefile/data
and resource fork under somefile/resource

ron