Re: [Gnu-arch-users] hurd foo

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Thomas Lord <address@hidden> writes:

> The claim that filesystems are a "normal application" is becoming
> more true in two senses:
>
>   1) Disk Economics

You have a deceivingly narrow view of file systems.  How does a
sysfs-like, or a proc-like file system relate to disk economics?  How
does a distributed, peer-to-peer file system (e.g., AFS), relate to disk
economics?  How about all these:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/4/INDEX.html ?

Plan 9 is right in that it shows that the file system _interface_ can be
useful for many, many things beside disk access.  And you would not
implement all these things in kernel-space, would you?

Thanks,
Ludovic.