Star Network Transparency and the Multi-Root Filesystem
Linked by Will Varfar on Tue 3rd Aug 2004 05:32 UTC
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Networks vs. local devices
by kig on Tue 3rd Aug 2004 16:01 UTC

Make the local filesystem work like a networked one, problem solved. Your local HD is, after all, connected with unreliable wires that may catch fire at any given moment. Even ramfs or cpufs may fail. Yet these unfortunate happenings shouldn't take the whole system down.

Things fail. Deal with it.