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Date: Tue,  4 Aug 2009 09:52:12 +0100
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From: roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com>
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2009/8/4 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
>> >
>> > Google?
>>
>> the exception that proves the rule? they emphatically
>> don't go for posix semantics...
>
> why would purveryers of 9p give a rip about posix sematics?

from ron:
> 10,000 machines, working on a single app, must have access to a common
> file store with full posix semantics and it all has to work like it
> were one machine (their desktop, of course).

... and gfs does things that aren't easily compatible with 9p either,
such as returning the actually-written offset when appending to a file.