powerful, distributed namespace?  you mean like, uh, dns.

dns can emulate everything that ndb provides except two-level
binding.

- erik

On Wed Jul 19 17:39:03 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Oh it gets better:
> 
> "UNIX's name server, BIND, has been replaced by ndb, which is easy to  
> configure, much more secure, and is the partial basis for Plan 9's  
> powerful, distributed name space."
> 
> And since there *are* several bits and pieces of Plan 9 that I still do  
> not grasp, and since private namespaces have also been brought up recently  
> as something not every n00b gets right away: could anybody please explain  
> to me what exactly the Plan 9 namespaces have to do with ndb?
> 
> /c

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