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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel
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Date: Mon,  1 Mar 2004 21:56:41 -0700
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On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Martin C.Atkins wrote:

> Does this mean "namespace" in the Plan 9 sense? Is it implemented
> yet, or was this file written in the "future optimistic" tense? :-)

in many ways. We exploit this new stuff for v9fs. It has allowed us to 
have private name space mounts on the 1024 node cluster. It's pretty nice.

> I heard that Al Viro was doing something in this area some time
> back, but don't know what happened to his work. (Sure enough, it
> does seem to do something in 2.4.24 - is this a "best kept secret"?
> If it works, why aren't we all using it?)

It works. I don't know why we're not all using it.

ron