From: roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ceph
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:52:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <df49a7370908040152k5afa946at38263b86b69410a5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <750990bfef0a9315c2f5e3067539d8cd@quanstro.net>
2009/8/4 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
>> >
>> > Google?
>>
>> the exception that proves the rule? they emphatically
>> don't go for posix semantics...
>
> why would purveryers of 9p give a rip about posix sematics?
from ron:
> 10,000 machines, working on a single app, must have access to a common
> file store with full posix semantics and it all has to work like it
> were one machine (their desktop, of course).
... and gfs does things that aren't easily compatible with 9p either,
such as returning the actually-written offset when appending to a file.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-04 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-30 0:43 Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-07-30 16:31 ` sqweek
2009-08-01 5:24 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-08-01 5:41 ` ron minnich
2009-08-01 5:53 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-08-01 15:47 ` ron minnich
2009-08-04 1:32 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-08-04 2:56 ` ron minnich
2009-08-04 5:07 ` roger peppe
2009-08-04 8:23 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-04 8:52 ` roger peppe [this message]
2009-08-04 9:55 ` C H Forsyth
2009-08-04 10:25 ` roger peppe
2009-08-04 14:45 ` ron minnich
2009-08-04 23:56 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-08-04 23:51 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-08-04 7:23 ` Tim Newsham
2009-08-05 0:27 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-08-05 3:30 ` Tim Newsham
2009-08-04 8:43 ` Steve Simon
2009-08-05 0:01 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
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