Re: v9fs release

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 okamoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> As a Linux user, I'm interested in your 9p port.   However, when I compare 
> Linux and Plan 9, the most scared thing of Linux to me is that I must 
> have large local disk for local Linux OS for every desktop machines.

yup. But our 1024-node cluster has one (1) disk. And no NFS roots or other 
bad ideas :-) So you can nuke that local disk. Can you do that for 
desktops? I think so.

> Anyway, if v9fs can replace NFS, it's nice to us, Linux users.

There are some tricky problems however, but we're working them.
9p is definitely not NFS ... that is good but makes life "interesting".

> Kenji   -- Am I hitting you?

no, you are saying stuff I agree with :-)

ron