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Subject: Re: [9fans] Proposed: Image Conversion Server
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:01:36 -0700
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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> Is server-load .. mount the best way to do this? This would be a first
> step towards an image processing system that could apply a chain of
> filters to the source images.

the BUG section of pipefile(1) agrees that an fs is the right way.  i
wonder if there's a general conversion fs; maybe by giving it the
filter for the conversion (e.g.  "jpg -c").

for an operating model, wouldn't something like lnfs(1) work better?

convert-jpegs /usr/glenda/jpegs
ls /usr/glenda/jpegs
pawn.jpg
cat /usr/glenda/jpegs/pawn.jpg.9

then in convert-jpgs
	if found pawn.jpg.9 return contents
	if not look for pawn.jpg
	if found generate pawn.jpg.9 from pawn.jpg.9 and return contents
	if not error not found