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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.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 17:18:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070914211828.GC12444@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46EAF9CD.1090808@garzik.org>

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 05:14:53PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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.

I am sympathetic....  Cutting those out may still leave you with
something pretty complicated, though.

> NFSv4.1 adds to the fun, by throwing interoperability completely out the 
> window.

What parts are you worried about in particular?

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-14 21:18 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
2007-09-14 21:18       ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
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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