From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: socket API extensions workgroup at OpenGroup needs HELP
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:05:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020220160514.T27423@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020220233307.GA9133@ravel.coda.cs.cmu.edu> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0202201854310.14928-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0202201854310.14928-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>; from viro@math.psu.edu on Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:00:08PM -0500
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:00:08PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Jan Harkes wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 06:21:11PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > > Is that, by any chance, the same crowd that stands behind DAFS?
> > > If it _is_ the same crowd - send them to hell, they are beyond hope.
> >
> > I almost thought that was directed at me, as Coda is kind of like a
> > Distributed version of AFS.
> >
> > phew, luckily DAFS it isn't related to AFS or Coda ;)
>
> DAFS isn't a filesystem - it's software equivalent of Freddy Kruger:
> 85 madmen^Wcompanies, one naive nurse^Widea, nightmares-inflicting monster
> conceived as the result of weeks of clusterfuck...
Yeah. No kidding. Anyone who thinks this is a good idea really hasn't
thought about it clearly. It's nice marketing, sounds good, and is
a crock. If you want this sort of thing, that's what kiobufs are for,
and if kiobufs don't work right, that's a bug. Phooey on hacks.
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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
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2002-02-20 22:57 ` socket API extensions workgroup at OpenGroup needs HELP Pete Zaitcev
2002-02-20 23:21 ` Alexander Viro
2002-02-20 23:33 ` Jan Harkes
2002-02-21 0:00 ` Alexander Viro
2002-02-21 0:05 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2002-02-20 23:44 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-21 0:06 ` Larry McVoy
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[not found] ` <E16dgPr-000595-00@the-village.bc.nu.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-02-21 12:01 ` Andi Kleen
2002-02-20 14:18 Louis Laborde
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