On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:27 PM, David Leimbach<leim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/13/09, erik quanstrom <quans...@coraid.com> wrote: >>> we don't use te*xt for 9p, do we? >> >> the difference being, 9p is the transport not >> the representation of the data and 9p has >> a fixed set of messages. >> > > Also 9p aims at file systems pretty obviously where Thirft is a > generic RPC mechanism with stub compilers for bindings for several > languages. > > I have not been able to convince coworkers that filesystem namespaces > are the way to go. I think they think it is too hard. > > *shrug* you can lead a horse...
Funny, the problem I usually have is that people think file systems are *too simple*, oh, no data types other than *byte stream* and *drectory*, and no type checking! We are all going to die! People seem to have trouble believing something simple can do a job that they have convinced themselves needs to be very complicated. uriel
