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Date: Wed Aug 22 10:24:01 2007
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= RPC vs. REST/CRUD =
-I just noticed that the changes I'm proposing are the same as those when converting from an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer#Example RPC representation to a RESTful representation] of the files and functionality abstracted by the kernel. Notice how instead of defining many different syscalls as in RPC, the REST/CRUD model follows a simple set of 4 I/O operations and access to different files/functionality is moved to a hierarchy of names. In other words, this high-level VFS proposal is more "web-like". (jdt)
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+I just noticed that the changes I'm proposing are the same as those when converting from an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer#Example RPC representation to a RESTful representation] of the files and functionality abstracted by the kernel. Notice how instead of defining many different syscalls as in RPC, the REST/CRUD model follows a simple set of 4 I/O operations and access to different files/functionality is moved to a hierarchy of names. In other words, this high-level VFS proposal is more "web-like". (jdt)
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+- I'm preparing to leave town for the D Programming Conference in Seattle, Washington, but here are a few preliminary thoughts: it seems that this is a simple map where a "location" is a synonym (an alias if you will) for a file. This, RPC paradigm translated into file crap, becomes a simple dictionary then. But I see we are focusing on the REST approach, so 86 that dictionary then. Perhaps instead of using "http://" we could use "file://", but this approach would change the file hierarchy no? So instead of having "/dev/null" we would have "file://root/dev/null" (or more appropriately "file:///dev/null")? I think the resource approach is more object oriented, more unix-like iff we make a resource an alias for a file. Or we represent it as-a file, vnode, what have you. This idea I will think about for a bit. I'll be back Saturday the 25th, but I'll try: thinking about this some more, revising my research to be more comprehensive, and having fun at the conference :) (pqnelson)
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