Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mixer filesystem

2008-02-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jason Dusek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm also currently moving out several things from mozilla to
> > their own fileservers.
> 
> What kinds of things?

* profile data, eg. bookmarks, secrets, addressbook
* plugins
* mail/message storage
* url access
* download manager
* remote facility
...


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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mixer filesystem

2008-02-08 Thread Jason Dusek
Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm also currently moving out several things from mozilla to
> their own fileservers.

What kinds of things?

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mixer filesystem

2008-02-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> interesting, yes, but what's the point? (not saying it's useless, just
> that I missed something).  What would I use it for?

For a better understanding I'd suggest a bit research on Plan9 ;-P

In Plan9 everything runs through filesystems (even more than
on *nix). Instead of large applications and dozens of frameworks 
we have fileservers for many things, even the windowing system
is accessed via the filessystem. So filesystem trees (accessed
via the 9P protocol) are the universal IPC. This makes the whole
thing completely network transparent and platform agnostic.

The MixerFS is one of the puzzle pieces. It provides an easy to 
use interface for applications which want to control mixers. So
(once the apps have been ported ;-P) there's no more dependency
to any platform specific stuff and the whole thing is immediately
network transparent.

One of the next steps is an audio io filesystem, which replaces
things like esd or jack.

I'm also currently moving out several things from mozilla to
their own fileservers.


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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mixer filesystem

2008-02-06 Thread Iain Buchanan

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 05:46 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> 
> I'm currently developing an synthetic filesystem for audio mixer
> control. It does all the OS/driver specific stuff within the
> fileserver, so applications can acces the mixer settings in an
> completely platform agnostic and network transparent way:
> 
> http://j.metux.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50
> 
> Maybe some of you's interested in it ?

interesting, yes, but what's the point? (not saying it's useless, just
that I missed something).  What would I use it for?
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[gentoo-user] OT: Mixer filesystem

2008-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt

Hi folks,


I'm currently developing an synthetic filesystem for audio mixer
control. It does all the OS/driver specific stuff within the
fileserver, so applications can acces the mixer settings in an
completely platform agnostic and network transparent way:

http://j.metux.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50

Maybe some of you's interested in it ?

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