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On Monday 15 February 2010 20:20:53 Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> >> And *IF* some application is interested in the such information, |
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> >> why not just using the filesystem ? |
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> > Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices and netbooks) |
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> > you don't want every single status update to be written to the |
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> > filesystem. And with minimal memory, I don't want to have a ram-disk |
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> > gobbling up the memory I have. |
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> Why not simply using tmpfs ? |
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> Or an specific synthetic filesystem ? 9P makes this really easy, |
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> and network agnostic. |
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Netbook: 1GB of ram, with Linux, I can easily run all the software I want , |
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without need of any swap. |
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Can I do the same with 9P? Eg. will I be able to run all the software I use on |
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my netbook without having to spent time on porting it all? |
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Is also all the hardware supported in 9P? Linux supports all the hardware in |
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my netbook. |
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Unless the answer to this is a 100% yes, 9P is never going to be an option. |
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