From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:22:00 -0700 From: Duke Normandin To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <0988d9b431d13319ae9cad80dc30c8c7@terzarima.net> Message-ID: References: <0988d9b431d13319ae9cad80dc30c8c7@terzarima.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology Topicbox-Message-UUID: 989e2376-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Charles Forsyth wrote: > > Am I close? > > a Plan 9 "file server" is just a program that responds to the 9P > protocol described in section 5 of the manual. (there is library > support for writing a file server.) a file server can provide a > service other than conventional data storage: consider rio, the plan > 9 window system, and acme, a user interface for programmers. some > file servers are more conventional: 9660srv for access to storage in > ISO9660 format, and notably fossil and venti. > > typically many file servers can run on one host, each providing a > different aspect of an application program's run-time environment, > but some services might (optionally) be given dedicated machines, > such as venti and fossil. Did I not allude to that when I used the word "daemon"? -- Duke