From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls.
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:14:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46EAF9CD.1090808@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070914211210.GB12444@fieldses.org>
J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:07:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> I've been waiting for years for a smart person to come along and write a
>> POSIX-only distributed filesystem.
> What exactly do you mean by "POSIX-only"?
Don't bother supporting attributes, file modes, and other details not
supported by POSIX. The prime example being NFSv4, which is larded down
with Windows features.
NFSv4.1 adds to the fun, by throwing interoperability completely out the
window.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-14 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-14 18:54 Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-09-14 19:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-14 20:46 ` Al Boldi
2007-09-14 21:12 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-14 21:14 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-09-14 21:18 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-14 22:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-14 22:42 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-15 4:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-15 4:40 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-15 2:54 ` Mike Snitzer
2007-09-15 12:34 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-09-15 12:29 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-09-15 17:24 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-09-16 7:07 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-10-26 10:44 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-09-16 13:43 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-09-15 13:56 ` Robin Humble
2007-09-15 14:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-15 16:20 ` Robin Humble
2007-09-15 17:51 ` Andreas Dilger
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