Re: [9fans] WebDAV file system

["Skip Tavakkolian" <fst@centurytel.net>]

You're not kidding.  For every distributed-fs (to use the term
loosely) like WebDAV that is publicized, there are many variations
that are in products that get used everyday.  There is no mentoring
and most developers out there either have the patience or given the
time to study the state of technology.  The ready-shoot-aim school of
development is the norm.  Organizations like Bell Labs are the exception.

The situation is not hopeless.  Much as I like to believe otherwise, I
have been convinced that most people don't like to think for
themselves and would like others to do it for them (herd mentality).
So all it takes is a "killer app", a success story to push concepts
like Plan9's into the mainstream.  Then you'll have a new crop of
programmers having their own misconceptions, building new misguided
derivatives.  That's life.

> An infinite number.  Every year or two someone figures out that,
> hey, we can use fad-of-moment to write a remote file system protocol,
> without thinking that a) it's only fad-of-moment, not inherently
> valuable and that b) knowing nothing about how to write a file
> system protocol should stop me from barging ahead willy-nilly.
>
> as you might sense, this is a hot button for me, right next to
> the 'hey, i can write a cool naming hack to make fad-of-moment
> work with this system'.