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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:17:28 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem
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> 	x = open("a/b/c", mode)
>
> can yield a vector of file descriptors!  Leaving component
> interpretation to the current node makes this a very dynamic
> and powerful system (for example, one can think of a node that
> maps to a list of network nodes -- so something like
>
>     echo "date" > /net/my-nodes/foo
>     chmod +x /net/my-nodes/foo
>     /net/my-nodes/foo

one would think that a distributing file server would be
a better abstraction as the normal tools could be brought
to bear on the problem.

- erik