Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 13:27:47 +0200 From: Stefan Grefen <grefen@hprc.tandem.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: kpneal@pobox.com (Kevin P. Neal), Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu, gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, thorpej@nas.nasa.gov, phk@critter.tfs.com, greywolf@siva.captech.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org Subject: Re: VPS mailing list, BSD interest? Message-ID: <17093.844428467@hrriss.hprc.tandem.com> In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message <199610022145.OAA04796@phaeton.artisoft.com> of Wed, 02 Oct 96 14:45:11 PDT. References: <199610022145.OAA04796@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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In message <199610022145.OAA04796@phaeton.artisoft.com> Terry Lambert wrote: > > I'm hoping to avoid somebody saying "But I don't WANT it to rearrange my > > data, and put it on different disks automatically!". Of course, you could > > still cut off that feature. In that event, it could still give you hints. > > Generate an event stream as a reasult of FS events, then, and export > the stream interface. > > This is generally useful for things like "Hi, I'm a browser, tell me > when the directory changes so I can redisplay it instead of polling > it every 10 seconds like a Macintosh does to an AppleTalk Server". > > The events would be interpreted by a management facility with active > components. By default, the active components would not be provided > (ie: you want that type of behaviour, you write it). > > See the AFS documentation for more information on this type of event > processing facility. Or have a look at the purposed DMIG (Data Management Interface Group) standard. (ftp://acsc.com/pub/dmig/if_doc/v2.3/). If anybody starts to implement this, count me in. Stefan > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. -- Stefan Grefen Tandem Computers Europe Inc. grefen@hprc.tandem.com High Performance Research Center You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10^12 to 1. -- Ernest Rutherford
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