From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:39:32 -0400 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] implmenting /mnt/9/clone In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 71157940-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I'm playing around with the p9p ramfs server, and was wondering about the > best way to implement a file for clone. If you want to build a regular (patterned) synthetic file system, don't start with the ramfs server, which has a lot of extra baggage because it must support a general file tree instead of a regular synthetic one. In particular, regular file systems can use regular qids and assign meaning to them. Cdfs and sshnet are good examples of this on Plan 9. Look at those. Russ