You have a caching server (a separate machine) that caches files from
servers that are far away. Some of the file servers it caches are
synthetic. You mount one of them in /net. The server doesn't know that.
On Oct 31, 2007, at 2:03 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
The dynamic nature of namespace works against such conventions.
Besides it would be nice to have a mechanism that could work in other
systems that use 9p. File servers should be able to convey whether a
file is cache-able or not.
i'm not sure i follow this argument. plan 9 namespaces are dynamic.
one could put the network devices anywhere, but they are
conventionally
put on /net. there are no "regular" files in /net.
perhaps if you gave a concrete example of why conventions can't sort
this out it would make more sense to me. (i'm slow.)
- erik
