Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> > and as such, i was thinking of a server that simply distributed requests
> > among a set of servers.  so that
> >
> > > > >     echo "date" > /net/my-nodes/foo
> > > > >     chmod +x /net/my-nodes/foo
> >
> > would work with the normal tools on a normal kernel.  all the distribution
> > would be part of a purpose-built fs.
>
> How would this work? Someone has to map "/net/my-nodes/foo" to
> a set of files. Either a program iterates over the list or you
> push this list processing into the "purpose built" filesystem.
> [Actually the latter is what I was thinking of -- A "9p*"
> protocol would return a list of file handles, and "rc*" would
> be an APLish version of rc]

i was also thinking of the latter.  one could set up a set of parallel
trees so that "date -n > /n/parallel/nodes/dev/date" could set the
time do some gross level on a set of pre-selected nodes.  selection
could be fairly obvious, as in "echo create notes $machines>/n/parallel/ctl".

- erik