Hi John, > (1) Create a way to share files between machines on a LAN really > easily that doesn't hang the system if the network goes away. SAMBA > is too complex. sshfs can hang a whole machine if a network goes > down.
I'd like to see Plan9's approach of everything being a filesystem. This is similar to Unix's "devices are files" approach but far more flexible. The mouse driver presents a filesystem, so does the "screen", the connection to an IRC server, IMAP, etc. Talking to all these is done with the same 9P protocol. Consequently, once the "mount" of the filesystem is done into the process's "namespace" the user doesn't care if the filesystem server is local or remote. Linux supports 9P and I did hear there were rumours of something similar to namespaces being added to Linux's process model, so maybe given time... Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
