From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] 'wall' messages From: rog@vitanuova.com In-Reply-To: <3d8154149de8f10b0ef1beb40db0f7d5@plan9.bell-labs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:07:12 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 69ed5b64-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I'm with rog. All we need is a broadcast service in /srv. Anyone > writes into it and everyone reading it sees it. It's basicly > consolefs without the device. Call it a chat room if you like. problem is, that doesn't address the problem of fileservers going away. but i guess fileservers should be much more stable than cpu servers (less chance of someone like me killing it with a dodgy job), and perhaps a warning mail message is more appropriate in this case.