Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux's future: //posix/ipc, //root and so on ? | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 01 Mar 2000 10:34:11 +0100 |
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Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:
> branches had enough infrastructure in the kernel. WE HAVE IT. We have > superior VFS design - best of all Unices I've seen or heard of. Thanks to > the work of Linus, Bill Hawes, Schobel-Theuer and a lot of other people.
superior VFS design -- except when you need to write an NFS server. Not being able to do open_by_inode() is sometimes _really_ annoying. Just look at the mess in fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c and tell me how this is superior over a simple iget() ?
-Andi
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