From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rob pike To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] WebDAV file system Message-ID: <1082689.1035965861@[192.168.1.101]> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 08:17:42 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1206fd2a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > How many awful, truncated remote file system protocols are people > going to invent before they just bite the bullet and use a real one? An infinite number. Every year or two someone figures out that, hey, we can use fad-of-moment to write a remote file system protocol, without thinking that a) it's only fad-of-moment, not inherently valuable and that b) knowing nothing about how to write a file system protocol should stop me from barging ahead willy-nilly. as you might sense, this is a hot button for me, right next to the 'hey, i can write a cool naming hack to make fad-of-moment work with this system'. -rob