[EROS-Arch] a few questions..

[Robert Wittams]

Hello, I had a bit of time on my hands ( time I should revise in! maybe
this can count as revison for operating systems... hm.) and I was having
a look at implementing a more exciting (database-ish) directory domain.
I wrote to this list about this a bit before..

Anyway, I had a few questions:

Is it better to use the capability pages, or the supernode,  or making a
local tree of nodes, for storing large numbers of keys? I assume
capability pages are no longer used...they seem to be missing from quite
a lot of places. Or is the key space proposal implemented yet? I could
not find it. If this is the preferred method I will try to use that. Or
maybe use the supernode for now and convert it.  

Would it be better to implement this as a unix program first, and then
convert it? (ie just do it for data for now, and add keys in later)
I'm not really sure how I would test it from eros at first - is it
possible to make programs that use a terminal like interface currently?
(eg a shell to test it from).

What is the status of the idl compiler? is it suitable to use currently?

If it is completely pointless to do this currently, I could try doing
something else... 


Rob