On 11/1/07, roger peppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i don't really want to teach this filesystem about which files are
> "conventionally"
> normal - and it would be nice to just run one instance for an entire exported
> fs (accessed through another name, as brian stuart's example).
>
Yes - I think transitive mounts, the desire to be able to mount
pre-composed file systems, and even mixed mode synthetics (which have
both ctl files and cacheable data) all lean toward having a way of
identifying what should be cache-able. For instance, my Libra
libraryOS environment currently only has a single channel with which
to mount all resources -- so it mounts the file system at the same
time as console and network files. I imagine if we ran 9p directly on
top of one of the raw interconnect channels on Blue Gene we might be
in a similar situation (although we aren't currently looking at that).
-eric
