From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:51:18 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <86d3km6qz0.fsf@cmarib.ramside> References: <8662qej52i.fsf@cmarib.ramside> <86d3km6qz0.fsf@cmarib.ramside> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Q: moving directories? hard links? Topicbox-Message-UUID: d076061a-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > It's not that obvious to me. A hard link is another name for a file, > uniquely identified by . 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