From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Neil W. Van Dyke" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: bgb, references for mailing lists?... Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:53:31 -0500 Sender: guile-user-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <15502.38139.729436.115373@winona.neilvandyke.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1015977309 3974 80.91.224.249 (12 Mar 2002 23:55:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 23:55:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16kw6m-00011z-00 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 00:55:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16kw5k-0000ph-00; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:54:04 -0500 Original-Received: from dsl092-071-029.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.71.29] helo=winona.neilvandyke.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16kw5F-0000oT-00 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:53:33 -0500 Original-Received: from nwv by winona.neilvandyke.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16kw5E-0005SC-00; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:53:32 -0500 Original-To: "cr88192 sydney" In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.01 under Emacs 21.1.1 Errors-To: guile-user-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:8 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:8 This may be a bit off-topic for Guile... If you want a starting point for OS experimentations, you might take a look at OSKit ("http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/"). Reportedly, the author of MzScheme was able to make a proof-of-concept bootable Scheme system in a matter of hours using OSKit. You may have similar luck with putting Guile atop OSKit and/or extending OSKit with your object store ideas. Research-wise, I'm not a specialist on the topic, but I suspect searching CS literature for terms like "persistent object store", "distributed object", "replication", etc., might provide some useful background information and help you contextualize and articulate what problem(s) you want to explore. Reading recent conference proceedings will suggest what problems other researchers currently find most interesting and what they're working on. For a practical system intended to be production quality rather than a research prototype, you might take a look at what the InterMezzo project ("http://www.inter-mezzo.org/") is doing for replicating filesystems on Linux. Good luck. -- Neil W. Van Dyke http://www.neilvandyke.org/ _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user