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CRFS and POHMELFS

Posted Feb 7, 2008 9:41 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: CRFS and POHMELFS by heini
Parent article: CRFS and POHMELFS

AFS, with a much more efficient protocol, not a horror to administer, and 
actually making an effort to be a POSIX filesystem rather than 
gratuitously reinventing things like, oh, permissions?

Seems like a good thing to me, although you could replace `AFS' with 'a 
distributed filesystem' and get the same answer :)

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CRFS and POHMELFS/AFS

Posted Feb 8, 2008 3:17 UTC (Fri) by linuxbox (subscriber, #6928) [Link]

A more interesting comparison for me would be CRFS vs. GFS or OCFS--which, I rather suspect,
is more what the btrfs authors are aiming at.

CRFS and POHMELFS/AFS (what about HAMMER?)

Posted Feb 8, 2008 13:03 UTC (Fri) by Velmont (guest, #46433) [Link]

How does HAMMER fit into all of this? Yes, it is being developed for DragonflyBSD, but it
could maybe come into Linux. Does anyone know? :-)

CRFS and POHMELFS/AFS

Posted Feb 9, 2008 22:42 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

I'd like to know how it's better than NFSv4. The only reason NFSv4 exists is to solve those classic NFS problems. It definitely has client-side caching and POSIX inter-user synchronization of file access.