From: Noel Hunt <noel.hunt@gmail.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>, gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net
Subject: Re: [TUHS] YP / NIS / NIS+ / LDAP
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 08:21:37 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfO01yWuKUjO24fNFKWqcvV-Svvf8QYqk_msfhg7oGtVhBQrA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181105190424.GE19335@mcvoy.com>
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The mention of a YP server that scales to the entire world
reminds me of my time at Lehman Bros. (yes, evil incarnate)
in Tokyo, 1995-96. They were using moira which I believe was
from Project Athena, to push out YP maps to all their sites
around the world. I have a feeling there were ex-MIT people
at Lehman in New York.
On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 7:09 AM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:38:50AM -0700, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> > Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> >
> > > OK, found some slides:
> > >
> > > http://mcvoy.com/lm/papers/lamed.pdf
> >
> > That was quite interesting!! Very impressive. Did the reference
> > port ever get contributed to Linux? It looks like a nice architecture.
>
> Yeah, it was sort of overkill for the problem space, but it seemed
> like the right answer. Very much inspired by the vnode/vfs interface
> I learned in SunOS.
>
> The caches worked across reboots. I left not long after we completed 1.0,
> Bob Mende (RIP) and some other folks took the mmap based dbm (I called
> mdbm) and put locks in each page so you could have multiple writers.
> That code made its way to yahoo and just got used for everything, they
> made it C++ (not a fan of that but whatever) and evolved it farther than
> I ever imagined. They had DBs that were 100's of gigs ~20 years ago.
> They open sourced their stuff.
>
> I'm not sure if SGI ever open sourced it, be a shame if they didn't.
> Though the need for a YP server that scales to the entire world is
> not so clear to me. But you could do it.
>
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2018-11-04 20:51 Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-04 21:46 ` Ben Greenfield via TUHS
2018-11-04 22:45 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-11-04 22:58 ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2018-11-04 23:49 ` Warner Losh
2018-11-05 3:16 ` Robert Brockway
2018-11-05 6:08 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-05 7:24 ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2018-11-05 7:33 ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2018-11-05 16:12 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-11-05 19:32 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-05 22:43 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-11-06 5:25 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-06 16:50 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-11-06 19:43 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-05 19:27 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-05 19:36 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-05 21:36 ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2018-11-05 23:12 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-05 21:43 ` Ben Greenfield via TUHS
2018-11-06 4:58 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-06 12:59 ` Ben Greenfield via TUHS
2018-11-06 6:53 ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2018-11-06 13:21 ` Ben Greenfield via TUHS
2018-11-06 13:44 ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2018-11-06 14:00 ` Ben Greenfield via TUHS
2018-11-06 13:46 ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2018-11-05 22:34 ` Dan Cross
2018-11-06 5:24 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-06 7:07 ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2018-11-06 17:30 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-06 19:58 ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2018-11-06 22:24 ` Dan Cross
2018-11-07 0:35 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-07 11:37 ` Pete Turnbull
2018-11-07 17:30 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-07 22:01 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-11-08 1:48 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-11-07 23:00 ` Pete Turnbull
2018-11-07 1:03 ` Pete Turnbull
2018-11-06 12:54 ` Ben Greenfield via TUHS
2018-11-05 20:10 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-11-05 3:49 ` Larry McVoy
2018-11-05 6:12 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-05 19:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-11-05 22:53 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-06 1:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-11-05 15:44 ` Larry McVoy
2018-11-05 18:38 ` arnold
2018-11-05 19:04 ` Larry McVoy
2018-11-05 21:21 ` Noel Hunt [this message]
2018-11-07 8:58 ` arnold
2018-11-07 14:05 ` arnold
2018-11-05 20:48 ` A. P. Garcia
2018-11-05 23:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-06 1:46 ` Dan Cross
2018-11-06 5:32 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-06 22:29 ` Dan Cross
2018-11-07 0:40 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-07 1:38 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-11-06 3:03 ` Robert Brockway
2018-11-06 5:03 ` David Arnold
2018-11-06 5:34 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-06 23:59 Norman Wilson
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