> why should we follow what sun does? We wrote our own filesystem
>because it is better than ufs. similarly we can still have NFS, no mat=
ter
>how broken it is and move forward at the same time by creating a bette=
r
>filesystem ( one that works rather than just research based; although =
we
>can pick the minds of people that are versed in it, there were some go=
od
>concepts in the Sprite filesystem ).
Because you want to cooperate with other machines in a
networked environment. Either you would provide implementations (and
maybe binaries) of your filesystem for various unix dialects and even
Windows or you're simply cut off :-(
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What is that "sleep" thing, anyway?