Ralf Utermann wrote:
Mark Crispin wrote:
[...]
I doubt very much that mbx format will work on any network filesystem,
even if the locking problem is solved. The only network filesystem
that I know of in which mbx would work was the old TOPS-20 from two
decades ago, and only because that filesystem had rigorous token
passing on a page to guarantee that updates were atomic across all
users of the network filesystem.
I am quite sure, that DCE/DFS would allow mbx. It is good, stable and
mature
technology. End of service for IBMs DCE/DFS for AIX is April/2006. Sigh.
Off Topic Sigh indeed!
I used DCE/DFS when I was working at IBM Austin in 1993. Before that
I've used VAX/VMS 4.4 and later with VAXClusters. I'm too much of a
youth (not 40 yet!) to have used TOPS-20.
So, with a history of working, locking, distributed file system why
are we still struggling with NFS?
Guy, out
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