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

Ingo =?UNKNOWN-8BIT?Q?L=FCtkebohle?= (Ingo@identity.de)
Mon, 22 Jul 1996 18:20:45 +0200


Jauder Ho wrote:
> why should we follow what sun does?

Because we don't need another non-standard.

> We wrote our own filesystem
> because it is better than ufs. similarly we can still have NFS, no matter
> how broken it is and move forward at the same time by creating a better
> filesystem

Why not base the new file-system on NFS? Incremental changes are more
likely to be accepted than total re-implementation (not that I should
say that, considering X++ ;-)) and it eases upgrade.

//Ingo