From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls. Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:14:53 -0400 Message-ID: <46EAF9CD.1090808@garzik.org> References: <20070914185429.GA9439@2ka.mipt.ru> <46EADC02.9070409@garzik.org> <20070914211210.GB12444@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070914211210.GB12444@fieldses.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.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