Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

No, they did not.

Plan 9 was designed long before any high availability/CAP theorem/distributed databases lessons were learned: it embodies the Unix mindset of reliably available nodes talking over tcp.

Failover/distributed consensus/orchestration/load balancing/network split tolerance/replication could be built on top of 9P servers, but all of these concepts are pretty alien to Plan 9 itself.



Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: