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 linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
