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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:18:28 -0400 From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org> To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls. On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 05:14:53PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > J. Bruce Fields wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:07:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >>> I've been waiting for years for a smart person to come along and write a >>> POSIX-only distributed filesystem. > >> What exactly do you mean by "POSIX-only"? > > Don't bother supporting attributes, file modes, and other details not > supported by POSIX. The prime example being NFSv4, which is larded down > with Windows features. I am sympathetic.... Cutting those out may still leave you with something pretty complicated, though. > NFSv4.1 adds to the fun, by throwing interoperability completely out the > window. What parts are you worried about in particular? --b. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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