Thank you, Patrick! There are not enough Plan 9 references on this list!! Maybe we could get a Plan 9 presentation...
Ben On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:05:59 -0800 "Patrick R. Wade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 08:53:12PM -0800, T. Joseph Carter wrote: | > | >Actually, this has got me thinking about how to better handle things | >like swapping disks, root filesystems on removable CDs, etc. | > | >It seems that the -bind mount option and / being completely virtual | >(ie, in the kernel) would be the right way to go about it, but I | >haven't come up with a good way to implement it. What's clear is | >that what I envision is outside the realm of automounters and | >traditional UNIX filesystem methodology. (Which means it'll never | >happen in Linux..) | > | >Ah well. =) | > | | <SouthPark>Plan 9 did it!</SouthPark> | | On the bright side, Linux has profited from Shameless Ripoff Of | Decade-Old Plan 9 Technology before ( /proc, among other things ), so | it might become doable. | | -- | "That time in Seattle... was a nightmare. I came out of it dead | broke, without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a | knowledge of UNIX." "Well, that's something," Avi says. "Normally | those two are mutually exclusive." --Neal Stephenson, | "Cryptonomicon"_______________________________________________ | EuG-LUG mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
