Re: resources

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, andrey mirtchovski wrote:

> i've been thinking about it. as a centralized resource, unfortunately.
> 
> a /srv/ entry somewhere, that when mounted presents the system hierarchy
> together with the resources available, sort of:

yes, but:

I may want to let you import that from me, but I don't want to let anyone 
else

I may not even want to let anyone else see names/ips.

I might want to have a disjoint set of things you can see, and (e.g.) some 
other DOE site can see. 

So we have to prepare for more flexibility than this.


> 
> 	% import somewhere /n/9grid /n/9grid

but that's cool

> 	% cd /n/9grid; ls
> 	node1
> 	node2
> 	...
> 	nodeX
> 	ctl
> 	% cat node1
> 	location: 136.159.7.68
> 	arch: 386
> 	cpuspeed: 1800
> 	load: 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 	note: University of Calgary
> 	<whatever you want here>

looks sort of cool.

I've got some other ideas along this line. 

I believe your ideas all work for me save the central directory.

ron