Posted Sep 21, 2012 22:40 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Throwing one away by bfields
Parent article: Throwing one away
I was thinking mostly of 'core' NFSv3. NLM/lockd was always a bolt-on: suggesting that a stateful subsystem be used for something like readdir would never have flown. (A bit silly, really, because readdir(), locally, is about as stateful as anything can get.)