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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:45:00 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons
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> >> Also, is the size of the namespace list an issue?
> >
> > how does history(1) work in the face of a complicated namespace?
> > we get buy now because the rules are pretty simple.
>
> Hmm.. your scripts to setup your namespace also exist in the
> wayback machine, no?
> Perhaps this is a good argument for
> http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/vxa/ ?

you've got to be able to get at the history to begin
with.  *that's* the problem.  lyndon's right, history
doesn't work even on the usual union directories.
compounding the problem doesn't seem like the
right way to go.

- erik