From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hubert Chan Subject: Re: plugin for cached network file system Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 00:40:46 -0400 Sender: news Message-ID: <87iseynvzl.fsf@uhoreg.ca> References: <200405131059.22693.Michael.James@csiro.au> <40A30C53.3020607@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com >>>>> "Hans" == Hans Reiser writes: Hans> It is easy to do a hack, and hard to do it right so that the world Hans> would want to drop nfs and move to it. We are trying to find a Hans> sponsor to do it right, and have a proposal called Reiser5 that Hans> costs $1.8 million, and provides global scalability (which Hans> nfs/afs/clusterfs/intermezzo do not, in my view). Purely out of curiosity (I have no access to funding of that scale, and I don't influence anyone who does), do you have an estimate for how much it would cost to get Reiser6 functionality? -- Hubert Chan - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.