On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 14:29 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > >> i would think that either you want encapsulation or you don't. > >> see-through encapsulation would seem to me to be a contradiction > >> in terms. > > > > Thanks for the feedback. Lets see if you change your mind after the > > explanation given above. > > nope. sorry. i would hate to see such a botch in plan 9. > if you want to distribute load by having multiple fs, then > it should be done so that the client wouldn't know or care > that any distribution is going on.
I think you're deliberately exaggerating here. You must know full well, that the client is *not* affected by that knowledge when everything works as expected(*), which would be in 99% of the cases (at lest here within Sun's intranet). And the fact that this knowledge can be easily obtained makes that 1% bearable. That said, thanks for the feedback anyway. I consider this thread closed expect for that one question I asked Russ. Thanks, Roman. P.S. I've seen this disbelief in the fact that automoter + NFS actually can be really convenient mostly come from Linux people. Which is not surprising given how crappy autofs and NFS are implemented there.
