Re: [9fans] microsoft's plan 9 distribution

2019-02-20 Thread hiro
upspin seems to be mostly a global naming, fine-grained (not just groups) authorization, addressing and indexing system. conceptionally it doesn't require the use of CLI tools, though (unknown to me) it might be the first implementations are centered around that. i think the problems it attempts

Re: [9fans] microsoft's plan 9 distribution

2019-02-20 Thread Ethan Gardener
Oh lol... you know Upspin isn't designed to work with Windows Android or iOS when you see how permissions are granted: a file called Access with no extension. This is all right if you do everything from the command line, but it's not exactly the ease and flexibility they claim to be going for.

Re: [9fans] microsoft's plan 9 distribution

2019-02-20 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019, at 9:11 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > Is Upspin an alternative? (Not helpful if you're required to talk to > specific AFS infrastructure.) For my use, I may as well use SMB over a VPN. AFS has just the right sort of caching to minimize mobile data usage without messing up.