On 9/1/2012 3:03 PM, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote: > In message <[email protected]>,Jeffrey Altman writes: >> The Elders have engaged in discussions with the major operating system >> vendors over the years as well. Those discussions inevitably broke down >> because AFS3 did not satisfy the needs of a First Class file system. >> (No Ext. Attributes, no alt data streams, no byte range locking, no >> mandatory locking, directory limitations, etc.) > > Again, I believe this was just a polite way to say "go away". While > these limitations do exist, they generally don't impact users on a > day-to-day basis or there are known workarounds. Some limitations > are present with any enterprise file system though.
You are making assumptions that are completely unfounded. I am not at liberty to discuss the contents of contract negotiations but discussions with at least two OS vendors reached that stage. Jeffrey Altman
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