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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:03:43 -0500
From: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 8c question
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On 7/11/05, Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
>=20
>=20
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:
>=20
> > Yeah, well -- sorta.  You probably have a better understanding of the
> > way Xen does stuff than I do.  I guess in the current context that is
> > exactly what they would correspond to, but in a 9P-based world, you
> > would only need a single channel.  You would mount the exported
> > private namespace containing the devices allocated to your partition
> > over that channel (instead of individually mounting disk, network,
> > etc.)
>=20
> that's not real xen-device-compatible, but let's go with it for now, just
> to get proof-of-concept going.
>=20

But I thought that was the whole point - to convince them to use 9P
for resource sharing versus the current stuff.  Using 9P for transport
alone just doesn't make sense to me -- let's sell them the whole
enchilada.

       -eric