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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:50:46 -0500
To: csant@csant.info, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] Investigating the Plan 9 Operating System - OSNews.com
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powerful, distributed namespace?  you mean like, uh, dns.

dns can emulate everything that ndb provides except two-level
binding.

- erik

On Wed Jul 19 17:39:03 CDT 2006, csant@csant.info wrote:
> > Oh it gets better:
>
> "UNIX's name server, BIND, has been replaced by ndb, which is easy to
> configure, much more secure, and is the partial basis for Plan 9's
> powerful, distributed name space."
>
> And since there *are* several bits and pieces of Plan 9 that I still do
> not grasp, and since private namespaces have also been brought up recently
> as something not every n00b gets right away: could anybody please explain
> to me what exactly the Plan 9 namespaces have to do with ndb?
>
> /c