On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:38:43 EDT erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > > i was thinking of file server in the traditional (ahem) plan 9 sense, > a network service that responds to 9p rather than a traditional (boring) > unix-style store.
To me the plan9 model is the "boring" one. Boringly simple. And I like it that way! Regardless, both can be used to distribute files. > and as such, i was thinking of a server that simply distributed requests > among a set of servers. so that > > > > > echo "date" > /net/my-nodes/foo > > > > chmod +x /net/my-nodes/foo > > would work with the normal tools on a normal kernel. all the distribution > would be part of a purpose-built fs. How would this work? Someone has to map "/net/my-nodes/foo" to a set of files. Either a program iterates over the list or you push this list processing into the "purpose built" filesystem. [Actually the latter is what I was thinking of -- A "9p*" protocol would return a list of file handles, and "rc*" would be an APLish version of rc]
