dir: store Access and Group files? about upspin HOT 5 CLOSED

To confirm: Are suggesting that a client shouldn't to store.Put(accessContents) + dir.Put(accessEntry) and instead do something like dir.PutAccess(accessContents) and the dir server would internally do its own store.Put(accessContents) and save the entry itself as it normally would?

I'm sort of okay with this plan, but it won't solve #37 because we can't prevent [email protected] from including [email protected]/Group/friends in joe's Access file and both roots could live very far from each other.

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I don't think the API needs to change, just that an Access file needs to have the references point to the store half of the DirServer. It could change, of course, but it wouldn't have to.

It wouldn't solve #37, it might just make it easier to solve.

I'm just thinking out loud, really, not proposing this necessarily.

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So the upspin.DirServer would need to implement upspin.StoreServer also?

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No, just Get. You could color the API so it fetches just Access and Group files.

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Retiring this for now. I think the current plan is OK for the foreseeable future.

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