Re: [9fans] QTCTL?

["Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>]

On 11/1/07, roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com> wrote:
> i don't really want to teach this filesystem about which files are
> "conventionally"
> normal - and it would be nice to just run one instance for an entire exported
> fs (accessed through another name, as brian stuart's example).
>

Yes - I think transitive mounts, the desire to be able to mount
pre-composed file systems, and even mixed mode synthetics (which have
both ctl files and cacheable data) all lean toward having a way of
identifying what should be  cache-able.  For instance,  my Libra
libraryOS environment currently only has a single channel with which
to mount all resources -- so it mounts the file system at the same
time as console and network files.  I imagine if we ran 9p directly on
top of one of the raw interconnect channels on Blue Gene we might be
in a similar situation (although we aren't currently looking at that).

      -eric