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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Q: moving directories? hard links?
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:51:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a371befd960a8971817c72434164e9b9@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86d3km6qz0.fsf@cmarib.ramside>

> It's not that obvious to me.  A hard link is another name for a file,
> uniquely identified by <type,device,qid>.

how do you specify the device?  you can't without giving up
on per-process-group namespaces.  i don't think there's any
way to uniquely identify a device except through a namespace,
and there's no global namespace.

> I don't understand why 9P doesn't allow transporting bind operations
> from machine to machine like this.

this is done all the time.  every time you cpu, you are exporting
your whole namespace to the target machine.

> It's similar for moving directories.  If you have a 10 GiB directory,

please explan why a bind is not appropriate here?

> At $local_big_networking_corp, I got chewed out for copying a 650MB ISO
> across a single router.

did the router get tired?

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-16 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-16  2:36 smiley
2011-04-16  2:40 ` Jacob Todd
2011-04-16  4:22 ` ron minnich
2011-04-16 16:53   ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-16 17:33   ` smiley
2011-04-16 17:51     ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-04-21 15:32       ` smiley
2011-04-21 15:43         ` ron minnich
2011-04-16 18:22     ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-21 15:44       ` smiley
2011-04-21 15:49         ` ron minnich
2011-04-21 16:54         ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-21 20:17           ` Richard Miller
2011-04-21 21:10             ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-21 22:41               ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-21 23:17                 ` ron minnich
2011-04-21 23:54                   ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-21 23:55                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-22  0:01                     ` ron minnich
2011-04-22  0:04                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-22  8:03                 ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-22  8:27                   ` dexen deVries
2011-04-22 13:05                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-22 17:47                     ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-24 18:58                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-16 18:03   ` Richard Miller
2011-04-16 18:17     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-04-16 18:56       ` Rob Pike
2011-04-18  9:08         ` Aharon Robbins
2011-04-18 12:41           ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-18 12:59             ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-18 13:00               ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-18 13:11                 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-23  3:48                   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-21  9:22       ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-04-16 16:58 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-19 15:36 ` Charles Forsyth

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