9pideas






     troff->html,troffdown->markdown, postscript  thing->web
layout engine, 9p->http


     9p	 could	hyperlink  all	our  man  pages.  A   single
mouseclick  would let you browse documentation (and research
papers written in troff) from anywhere in the world.


     Automatic archival	of all 9p  content  via	 cwfs.	Make
dumps  like  the internet archive but applied to every file,
giving you a wayback machine snapshot of everything  on	 9p.
Is this	the web	we have	all been waiting for?


     If	the publisher is responsible for  making  the  dump,
what  if  the  publisher dies? Then his	9p file	hierarchy nd
his backups go offline simultaneously, giving us zero redun-
dancy. Cwfs gives you this nice	/n/dump/2023/0829/ snapshot,
just like internet archive does. Ideally  a  daily  snapshot
should	be distributed among the reader	base to	avoid a	sin-
gle fault system. I suspect Cwfs could easily make its dumps
to  a  remote  file server. We would then be able to pull up
really old archives of	books,	journal	 articles,  research
papers,	and man	pages -- drm free


     A new filesystem that takes daily snapshots  like	cwfs
but stores it over torrents. Poor man's	FS -- PMFS


     CGI for files and directories ([FNS][1] would  be	han-
dling	dynamic	 generation  of	 file  paths).	Perhaps	 see
[execfs][2].


     Imagine  if  a  single  file  had	3  different  views:
/path/to/file.{c,lua,lisp}  .  These 3 source files could be
generated dynamically by some compiler from a single  source
file.	      Or	 perhaps	 three	       texts
/path/to/blog/{chinese,spanish,french},	all  generated	from
/path/to/blog/english.




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     Binaries can also be  generated  dynamically  over	 the
network	so that	users do not need to compile the software.


     Because 9 can boot	from a remote filesystem, developers
can work easily	with dumb terminals.


     The remove	filesystem may enable a	 universal  hardware
lab,  since  it	 should	 be possible to	easily cross compile
software for every architecture	on the distributed grid.


     Both p9p and 9fork	 (ircnow's  custom  fork)  could  be
written	mostly in lua to speed up development.


     Provide an	overlay	filesystem  on	top  of	 the  normal
filesystem  that  stores  itself  as  encrypted	 files	(see
duplicity   https://duplicity.gitlab.io,    maybe    stashfs
http://shithub.us/cinap_lenrek/stashfs/HEAD/info.html).





























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[1]:   https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=9.FNS   [2]:
http://felloff.net/usr/cinap_lenrek/execfs.tgz



		     November 23, 2024