Re: bgb, references for mailing lists?...

Re: bgb, references for mailing lists?...

[Neil Jerram]

>>>>> "cr88192" == cr88192 sydney <cr88192@hotmail.com> writes:

    cr88192> for the fs I was imagining using an object mesh like
    cr88192> design. before I had planned on an "semantic" fs model
    cr88192> (and that is about what I had coded).

Have you read Hans Reiser's paper on fs naming?  I found it
interesting, at least.  'Fraid I don't have a reference to hand, but
googling for Reiser and filesystem will probably find it.

        Neil


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Re: bgb, references for mailing lists?...

[Neil W. Van Dyke]

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/

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Re: bgb, references for mailing lists?...

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

The Sky project, a dream/fantasy/idea/project of Jim Blandy and me
(and a few others, off and on) has some ideas in common with what
you're talking about, I think.


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Re: bgb, references for mailing lists?...

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

   From: "cr88192 sydney" <cr88192@hotmail.com>
   Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 06:03:31 +0000

   for the fs I was imagining using an object mesh like design.

i'm not familiar w/ this.  what is "object mesh"?  thanks.

thi

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