From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan)
Subject: [sup-talk] GSoC Project of Interest
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:52:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1240490917-sup-3402@entry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1240449619-sup-9301@junction.es.net>
Reformatted excerpts from Jon Dugan's message of 2009-04-22:
> Most services on Plan 9 are implemented as synthetic file systems.
> The synthetic filesystem that represents email on Plan 9 is known as
> upas. upas provides a filesytem view of mail boxes regardless of
> their backend storage medium (eg, POP, IMAP, etc) which provides a
> nice clean separation between the code that you use to do useful
> things to your mail and the code that deals with the mail store
> itself.
Very interesting and that's a great abstraction. Definitely lots of
overlap with STS. I suspect the primary differences will be that STS
uses fielded, full-text search as its primary access mechanism, and
there's no notion of any kind of filesystem-like mailbox or directory
hierarchy.
--
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>
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2009-04-23 1:35 Jon Dugan
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