> It's not that obvious to me.  A hard link is another name for a file,
> uniquely identified by <type,device,qid>.  

how do you specify the device?  you can't without giving up
on per-process-group namespaces.  i don't think there's any
way to uniquely identify a device except through a namespace,
and there's no global namespace.

> I don't understand why 9P doesn't allow transporting bind operations
> from machine to machine like this.  

this is done all the time.  every time you cpu, you are exporting
your whole namespace to the target machine.

> It's similar for moving directories.  If you have a 10 GiB directory,

please explan why a bind is not appropriate here?

> At $local_big_networking_corp, I got chewed out for copying a 650MB ISO
> across a single router.  

did the router get tired?

- erik

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