From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262125AbVFUPga (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:36:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261682AbVFUPg3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:36:29 -0400 Received: from [212.100.255.31] ([212.100.255.31]:5863 "EHLO blue.eye.binarydream.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262125AbVFUPgB (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:36:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:35:52 +0100 From: Uriel To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: v9fs (-mm -> 2.6.13 merge status) Message-ID: <20050621153552.GJ22656@server4.lensbuddy.com> References: <20050620235458.5b437274.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 08:51:27AM -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > On 6/21/05, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > v9fs > > > > I'm not sure that this has a sufficiently high > > usefulness-to-maintenance-cost ratio. The 9P protocol implemented by v9fs is the result of over a decade of research in distributed systems at Bell Labs by the original Unix team, and it has various implementations for other operating systems that have been used in production systems for many years. 9P is designed to be portable across systems and transport protocols, it's network transparent, and it gives us interoperativity with Inferno(which can run hosted under Linux already), Plan 9, and p9p, and implementations for *BSD and other systems are in the works. 9P has the potential to become the standard protocol for distributed resources and I don't think any of the alternatives come anywhere near being as well designed, well proven and encompassing. uriel