From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:20:02 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] A little more ado about async Tclunk Topicbox-Message-UUID: 72a8371a-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > >> Let's try to define 'decent' for this thread -- a decent fileserver is one > >> on which close()s do not have any client-visible or semantic effect other > >> than to invalidate the Fid that was passed to them. Lets see how many file > >> servers we can think of that are 'decent': fossil, kfs, ken, > > Decent meant cacheable. Your meaning as nemo said... not so decent. cacheable != "clunk is nop" > even further > cacheable != "clunk can be processed asynchronously". Both concepts are orthogonal. that's sort of recursively begging the question. cachable in what sense? > Cathegory theory is useful for thinking about topology and other things. It is not abstract nonsense, only abstract. It *is* noise in this thread though. at the risk of the explaination devolving into general abstract nonsense, ... in the english literature, category theory is often refered to as abstract nonsense. it's a mathematician joke, and a complement, that i thought would be appreciated here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_nonsense - erik