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Maxine Hayes Nov 30, 2024

Hello all! Recently I have mentioned a research paper I wrote about Plan 9 for school. I first mentioned it at OLF during my "Rocky Linux is My $HOME" talk. I figure now is the perfect time to make it public. The paper is by no means perfect, but that's fine. I plan to flesh it out in the future as a book or series of books.

Enjoy!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vti9d6d_HM1dINoQThsTSw_lgYXnhaIBHgZ0VaJaSbo/edit?usp=sharing

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Plan 9 - Theorizing The Abandonment of The UNIX Design [Revised]

Plan 9 - Theorizing The Abandonment of The UNIX Design Maxine Hayes Stark State College ENG124: College Composition Professor Steve Edgehouse November 15, 2024 Plan 9 - Theorizing The Abandonment of The UNIX Design For decades society has relied on legacy systems to serve its needs. Modern ...

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Jack Nov 30, 2024

@maxinehayes Just skimmed your paper. Did you delve into union mounts? I'm no pro, but I would say that was the biggest architectural difference *at the time*, especially allowing it to occur in userspace. https://lwn.net/Articles/325369/

Union file systems: Implementations, part I [LWN.net]

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Maxine Hayes

@knapjack I had not unfortunately. I had focused on getting the main points across, though I will cover union mounts in the future. They're very useful for overriding devices and configuration files on a system. For example in Plan 9 using a VPN is as simple as mounting the /net of the remote machine over the /net of the local machine.