> > and as such, i was thinking of a server that simply distributed requests > > among a set of servers. so that > > > > > > > echo "date" > /net/my-nodes/foo > > > > > chmod +x /net/my-nodes/foo > > > > would work with the normal tools on a normal kernel. all the distribution > > would be part of a purpose-built fs. > > How would this work? Someone has to map "/net/my-nodes/foo" to > a set of files. Either a program iterates over the list or you > push this list processing into the "purpose built" filesystem. > [Actually the latter is what I was thinking of -- A "9p*" > protocol would return a list of file handles, and "rc*" would > be an APLish version of rc]
i was also thinking of the latter. one could set up a set of parallel trees so that "date -n > /n/parallel/nodes/dev/date" could set the time do some gross level on a set of pre-selected nodes. selection could be fairly obvious, as in "echo create notes $machines>/n/parallel/ctl". - erik
