Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Alternate solutions (Was: Re: NFS still has caching problem) | From | (Scott Laird) | Date | Wed, 24 Jul 1996 22:44:28 -0700 |
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In message <19960724123243.25678.qmail@slip-38-7.ots.utexas.edu>, lilo writes: >On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > >On the other hand, a solution developed on Linux using the free-software >model is not going to be a proprietary solution. Available source code can >help in acceptance. > >If there is no good, non-proprietary solution available, there's nothing >wrong with developing a portable solution under Linux. If NFS simply won't >cut it, you design something that will. That's what RFC's are for....
I'm sort of hesitant to step into this, but I think that we should try to involve the *BSD people in this, if we can find a way to work through the personality issues involved. A non-NFS network filesystem shared between Linux and *BSD can replace NFS in many more systems than a Linux-only solution. Having two implementations of a shared protocol will help the standardization process, and no one can accuse us (rightly or wrongly) of producing yet another proprietary network solution if we produce it jointly with the BSD groups. It's possible that the availibility of a BSD-licensed implementation might even convince a commercial vendor or two to add support, eventually, if the new filesystem has enough advantages over NFS.
I don't know who is planning on working on a new network filesystem. I'm not -- I'm planning Yet Another Journaling Filesystem right now, and I don't have the time to pick up another project. Those that do the work have the right to pick who they work with, but if anyone is serious about writing a new network filesystem, then I'd strongly suggest finding a couple BSD people that you can work with, and then work together, jointly, to develop a solid protocol and a pair of solid implementations. IMHO, this will help the free software community much more than a Linux-only solution.
Scott -- Scott A. Laird | "But this goes to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615" scott@laird.com | - Nigel on his new 64-bit computer
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