On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:12:57AM -0400, David Boyes wrote: > > OpenGFS is dead, especially now that GFS is free software again. > > Good to hear. OpenGFS was a hack. Still, there are people who still use > it.
I sincerly hope no ones using this code anymore, speaking as one of the founders of the OpenGFS project back in 2001. > > And OpenDFS doesn't exist, the name only every appeared in some mail > > posts regarding the free software license release of an old DCE > version. > > Beg to differ. It exists, but has not been publicized due to the general > architectural and deployment headache nastiness of DCE. I tinker with it > to support a couple of mfg customers who actually bought DCE in the > OSF/1 days and are still trying to keep it patched together. If you want > a copy, let me know. It takes some fairly stiff development skills to > make it work, however. Interesting to know. While DFS was interesting technology I doubt it makes sense to do anything major with the code base these days. It people really care it might be worth to do a modern client for the protocol from scratch, similar to what's going on with afs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
