On Aug 9, 2004, at 9:24 AM, Dr A V Le Blanc wrote:

On Saturday August 7, Christoph Hellwig, a Linux kernel developer,
gave a presentation at Leeds on Linux filesystems.  He said that
AFS was a buggy filesystem with a very messy code base, and that
people should stay away from openafs, which was particularly
unreliable.  I don't want to blame Christoph, who seems to have
picked up some anti-AFS feeling from some other kernel programmers,
but shouldn't we be doing something or other to counter this bad
press?  I stood up to say that we had been using AFS for about 15
years, and openafs since it came out, and that we were completely
satisfied with it.


If he was referring to that "new" implementation in the kernel maybe he's right :-) (just a bad joke)


I usually say to something like that:
"How many programs do you know which run in kernelspace on more than 10 platforms?? Show me their source code"
Most people start counting ... ;-)


BTW how many kernel programmers really use AFS, OpenAFS etc.?? so that they're so shure??
Actually I don't know what is worse ignorance or arrogance.



Horst

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