Re: streaming 9p

[Andreas Wagner <andreasbwagner@gmail.com>]

You make a good point about tstream removing important parts of 9p.

On another topic, I am looking into implementing ccn for 9front.
(Content-Centric|Named-Data) Networking could fit the plan9 model like
a glove. I just need to finish all my plan9 and ccnx readings so that
I can do it tastefully and thoroughly.

Links for those who are not familiar with ccn:

http://www.named-data.net/publications.html

http://www.ccnx.org/

- AndreasBWagner

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Uriel <uriel@berlinblue.org> wrote:
> If this streaming-9p stuff is what I remember from a while ago, which
> I have been trying to erase from my brains ever since:
>
> It completely breaks the 9P and Plan 9 model namespaces and network
> transparency, please keep that idiotic crap as far away as possible.
>
> It is an utterly disgraceful hack that destroys most of the things
> that make 9P and Plan 9 awesome.
>
> Hint: Pretending that all networks do TCP is as bad or worse than
> pretending the whole world is a VAX.
>
> If you are going to do this kind of crap, you could just as well use HTTP.
>
> uriel
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Andreas Wagner
> <andreasbwagner@gmail.com> wrote:
>> How about using streaming 9p in 9front? It addresses the performance
>> problem that seems to have in part lead to the more unix style pkg(1).
>>
>> http://5e.iwp9.org/slides/floren.pdf
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/floren/tstream/overview
>>
>> - AndreasBWagner
>>
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