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.
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