Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:05:14 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: socket API extensions workgroup at OpenGroup needs HELP |
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:00:08PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Jan Harkes wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 06:21:11PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > Is that, by any chance, the same crowd that stands behind DAFS? > > > If it _is_ the same crowd - send them to hell, they are beyond hope. > > > > I almost thought that was directed at me, as Coda is kind of like a > > Distributed version of AFS. > > > > phew, luckily DAFS it isn't related to AFS or Coda ;) > > DAFS isn't a filesystem - it's software equivalent of Freddy Kruger: > 85 madmen^Wcompanies, one naive nurse^Widea, nightmares-inflicting monster > conceived as the result of weeks of clusterfuck...
Yeah. No kidding. Anyone who thinks this is a good idea really hasn't thought about it clearly. It's nice marketing, sounds good, and is a crock. If you want this sort of thing, that's what kiobufs are for, and if kiobufs don't work right, that's a bug. Phooey on hacks. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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