On 5/30/22, Bakul Shah <ba...@iitbombay.org> wrote: > On May 29, 2022, at 10:01 PM, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: >> >> the challenge is that 9p is stateful, so all servers must >> replay the same messages in the same order; this means that >> if one of the replicas fails or returns a result that is not >> the same as the other, the front falls off. >> >> this means mirroring messages naïvely reduces reliability >> and performance, rather than increasing it. > > I was not thinking of mirroring. > > I was thinking of ckustered or distributed systems like > CephFS, IPFS, GlusterFS etc but thinking a cleaner & > simpler design might be possible. But it is quite possible > my brainstorm/pipedream is not realistic! > Besides the trivial applications (eg. mirroring with an out-of-band consolidation mechanism), I've been thinking more along these lines as well. Sure, for these applications multiplying would be just a basic function, and other, more interesting 9p servers would manipulate the namespaces of the different 9p servers, serving different parts of the "goal-namespace". A 9p multiplier would be just the first lego brick.
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