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- Submitted-by: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
-
- In article <551@usenix.ORG> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
- > According to brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein):
- > >NFS (as it is currently implemented) shows what goes wrong when
- > >reliability disappears.
- > In a discussion of filesystem semantics, NFS is a straw man. Everyone
- > knows it's a botch.
- > If AFS and RFS don't convince one that a networked filesystem
- > namespace can work well, then nothing will.
-
- Exactly! This example proves my point. What's so bad about NFS---why it
- doesn't fit well into the filesystem---is that it doesn't make the
- remote filesystem reliable and local. If you show me Joe Shmoe's RFS
- with reliable, local, static I/O objects, I'll gladly include it in the
- filesystem.
-
- ---Dan
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 185
-
-