Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

I disagree that it's being invented badly, I mean, Git is Venti applied to version control, so the features of Plan 9 from Bell Labs will appear evolutionarily over time in other spaces. The problem space and the computer science constraints which shape the solutions haven't changed, so the solutions will look similar -- and I think it's great that you're championing a helpful approach like Brenda brought us. I've already said that cloudy stuff, containers and Docker probably could learn from Plan 9, with the very words that 'those that don't understand Plan 9 are doomed to reinvent it, poorly'.

In the details, the idea that [storage] is a file and [program] is a server, that's a clear sense of what Unix wanted anyway. We probably want to go from Bell Labs into Outer Space next, with distances and comms times factored into scheduling the work that [program] has to do.

Now that I think about it, why dedup and btrfs-send/recv when there exists Git Annex or Venti? Particularly when you can use the hash of the library's interfaces, graphics and sounds to find it within the git or Venti storage.

K3n.