Re: n-hurd networking

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Hisham Kotry <etsh_cucu@yahoo.com> writes:

> Simon, I think Thomas' idea of a collective is more
> like a distributed hurd where (possibly) every server
> lies on a diffrent host, a problem that appeared was
> who would have control of "/"? in monolothic kernels,
> if the host controling "/" crashed, the system would
> loose all file system access, on the Hurd, you'd just
> loose everything (the FS acts as a rendez-vous for
> translators). So, probably someone will have to come
> up with a distributed FS, or just come up with another
> concept for rendez-vous'ing.

Of course, things like / need to be distributed in some fashion, yes.