Re: Alternate solutions (Was: Re: NFS still has caching problem)

Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr (mike@cosy.sbg.ac.at)
16 Jul 1996 19:29:27 GMT


In article <4sggh6$c0i@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>,
Thomas Koenig <ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
>In linux.dev.kernel, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) wrote:
>
>>The world is waiting for a decent networked file system with
>
>>o Security
>>o Replication support
>>o Fast bulk transfer
>>o Low latency
>
>This is very true.
[...]
>While we're at it, we also want good performance over slow links, and
>at least some atomic operations.
>
>>I don't see any reason why the Linux community shouldnt write it.
>
>This calls for immediate discussion (with apologies to Monty Python :-).
>Anybody willing to set up a mailing list?

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Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr can not assert the truth of all statements in 
this article and still be consistent. <mike@cosy.sbg.ac.at>