Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:31:35 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: Alternate solutions (Was: Re: NFS still has caching problem) |
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On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Because for a network filesystem, and indeed any client/server > application, it's probably not worth our collective time to write a > Linux-only solution. It won't be able to talk to all of the NFS servers > that are running on other platforms. >
It can't be a Linux-only solution, but it will be a Linux initated solution. If we can release a RFC, and a (GPL'd) referance implementation, everyone can use it (and will if it is good, look at ssh ....)
> One of of the things which Microsoft finally learned was that > solutions that depend on everyone running the same operating system, > both clients and servers, just aren't going to cut it. That's why > they've started embracing Internet protocols. And if Windows, with its > huge user base, wasn't able to hack it, Linux certainly won't be able to > win with a Linux-only networking filesystem solution. >
Well we're not going to fall into that trap, it'll be free to all comers (well if I have anything to say about it anyway ;)
> If someone wants to try, they are of course welcome --- it's a > free country, and people can spend their time on whatever they want.
Several of them ....
> - Ted Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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