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POHMELFS returnsPOHMELFS returnsPosted Feb 9, 2012 12:09 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769)In reply to: POHMELFS returns by nix Parent article: POHMELFS returns
That was also the flaw with the Andrew File System (AFS) I believe.
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POHMELFS returns Posted Feb 9, 2012 21:18 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Yeah. AFS made NFS look like the soul of POSIX-compliance: no cross-directory hardlinks, close() with extra magic effects (IIRC), and its own very non-Unixlike permissions system. (Ironically it would look more Unixlike today than when it was originally written, because ACLs are fairly similar to the AFS permission model.)
POHMELFS returns Posted Feb 10, 2012 4:14 UTC (Fri) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]
If POSIX compliance was the path to victory, we'd all be using AT&T's RFS now. (I tried to find a link, but apparently RFS doesn't even have a wikipedia entry... sigh.)
Personally, I think AFS was a great system that should have been more widely adopted. It didn't get open sourced until much later, though, and the usual VHS vs. Betamax thing happened.
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