In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Francisco Ballesteros wr ites: > You have just files and services (including devices). You want your >laptop (or PDA) to work standalone, but you still want the stateless terminal >that Plan 9 provides (so you have to administer just one or a few machines). >To me, it seems that replicating (sort of caching, like in coda) your FS into >your standalone machines is the easy way to do that. The only inconvenience
As it turns out, I've been playing around with some ideas in that direction. I've got a rough prototype in Plan 9 and a slightly less rough one in Linux using FUSE. I didn't like coda's special server code, so I took the approach of keeping two trees synchronized. That way you can connect to the file server you're caching with 9P or NFS or SMB or... It's been proving handy allowing my laptop to cache stuff from work and stuff from home at the same time. Hopefully, I'll get company permission to release the code soon. BLS
