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.
next prev parent 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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