ref: 7ad23a566c9c0097a72953ab41a7fce93f38f499
parent: 299372f834200534d2509f1fe8cce223195d1c1f
author: jrmu <jrmu@inter9>
date: Wed Oct 4 10:08:15 EDT 2023
9p ideas
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+# 9pideas
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+ troff->html,troffdown->markdown, postscript thing->web layout engine, 9p->http
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+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.
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+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?
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+If the publisher is responsible for making the dump, what if the publisher dies? Then his 9p file hierarchy \*and\* his backups go offline simultaneously, giving us zero redundancy. 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 single 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
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+A new filesystem that takes daily snapshots like cwfs but stores it over torrents. Poor man's FS -- PMFS
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+CGI for files and directories ([FNS][1] would be handling dynamic generation of file paths). Perhaps see [execfs][2].
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+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. +
+Binaries can also be generated dynamically over the network so that users do not need to compile the software.
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+Because 9 can boot from a remote filesystem, developers can work easily with dumb terminals.
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+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.
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+Both p9p and 9fork (ircnow's custom fork) could be written mostly in lua to speed up development.
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+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
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