From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 4 04:30:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA12250 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 04:30:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from suntan.tandem.com (suntan.tandem.com [192.216.221.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA12245 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 04:30:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hrriss.hprc.tandem.com by suntan.tandem.com (8.6.12/suntan5.960905) id EAA26309; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 04:30:06 -0700 Received: from hrriss.hprc.tandem.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hrriss.hprc.tandem.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA17097; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 13:27:48 +0200 (MET DST) To: Terry Lambert 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? Reply-To: grefen@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> Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 13:27:47 +0200 Message-ID: <17093.844428467@hrriss.hprc.tandem.com> From: Stefan Grefen Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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