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From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] RFS was: Re: UNIX of choice these days?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 07:07:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170928140700.GN28606@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201709281349.v8SDnHp2005910@freefriends.org>

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 07:49:17AM -0600, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling at kev009.com> wrote:
> 
> > I guess alternatively, what was interesting or neat, about RFS, if
> > anything?  And what was bad?
> 
> Good: Stateful implementation, remote devices worked.

I'd argue that stateful is really hard to get right when machines panic
or reboot.  Maybe you can do it on the client but how does one save all
that state on the server when the server crashes?

NFS seems simple in hindsight but like a lot of things, getting to that
simple wasn't chance, it was designed to be stateless because nobody
had a way to save the state in any reasonable way.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-28 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 126+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-20  0:12 [TUHS] " Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20  0:26 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-20  0:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-20  1:03   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-09-20 20:56     ` jason-tuhs
2017-09-23  9:17   ` Dario Niedermann
2017-09-23  9:36     ` Steve Mynott
2017-09-23 10:03       ` Dario Niedermann
2017-09-23 23:04         ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-24  0:11           ` Random832
2017-09-24  1:19             ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-24 13:46       ` Andy Kosela
2017-09-24 14:02         ` ron minnich
2017-09-24 14:06           ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-24 20:36             ` Kurt H Maier
2017-09-24 21:38               ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-24 23:36                 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-24 23:50                   ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-25  0:03                     ` Wesley Parish
2017-09-25 15:36                       ` Tony Finch
2017-09-26  0:42                         ` Wesley Parish
2017-09-26  9:54                           ` Tony Finch
2017-09-26 14:41                           ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-26 17:34                             ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-26 17:39                               ` Warner Losh
2017-09-26 18:26                                 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-26 17:43                               ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-26 19:44                                 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-26 23:22                             ` Wesley Parish
2017-09-25  0:51                     ` Charles Anthony
2017-09-25  0:36                   ` Dan Cross
2017-09-25  0:44                     ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-25  0:56                   ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-25 15:45                     ` Tony Finch
2017-09-25 16:14                       ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-25  7:41                   ` Andy Kosela
2017-09-25  7:43                     ` Cory Smelosky
2017-09-25 10:14                       ` Andy Kosela
2017-09-25  9:58                     ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-25 11:14                       ` Derek Fawcus
2017-09-25 11:48                       ` Andrew Warkentin
2017-09-24 15:26           ` Christian Barthel
2017-09-24 17:33             ` Clem Cole
2017-09-24 17:33           ` Clem Cole
2017-09-24 17:51             ` [TUHS] RFS was: " Arthur Krewat
2017-09-24 19:54               ` Clem Cole
2017-09-24 21:59                 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-24 22:08                 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-24 23:52                   ` Clem Cole
2017-09-27  8:44                 ` arnold
2017-09-27 15:25                   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-27 15:49                     ` arnold
2017-09-27 17:38                   ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2017-09-27 23:01                   ` Kevin Bowling
2017-09-27 23:11                     ` Clem Cole
2017-09-27 23:13                       ` Kevin Bowling
2017-09-28  0:39                         ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-28  3:19                           ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-09-28 13:45                             ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-28 17:12                               ` Steve Johnson
2017-09-28 17:58                                 ` [TUHS] Bill Joy was: Re: RFS Forrest, Jon
2017-09-28  0:54                         ` [TUHS] RFS was: Re: UNIX of choice these days? Dave Horsfall
2017-09-28  0:59                           ` William Pechter
2017-09-28 13:49                         ` arnold
2017-09-28 14:07                           ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2017-09-28 14:28                             ` arnold
2017-09-28 19:49                               ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-28 20:00                             ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-28 14:27                           ` Clem Cole
2017-09-28 22:08                             ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-28 22:20                               ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-29  2:23                                 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-09-29  8:59                                 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2017-09-29 14:20                                   ` Clem Cole
2017-09-29 16:46                                   ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-29 17:02                                     ` Kurt H Maier
2017-09-29 17:27                                       ` Pete Wright
2017-09-29 18:11                                       ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-29 18:47                                     ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2017-09-29 15:22                                 ` George Ross
2017-09-29 18:40                                   ` Don Hopkins
2017-09-29 19:03                                     ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-29 21:24                                     ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-29 22:11                                       ` Don Hopkins
2017-09-29 22:21                                         ` Don Hopkins
2017-09-29 19:19                                 ` Dan Cross
2017-09-29 19:22                                   ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-29 20:52                                   ` Jon Forrest
2017-09-23 23:00     ` [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2017-09-26 22:00     ` Christian Groessler
2017-09-20  4:42 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20  8:31   ` Mutiny 
2017-09-20  9:15 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-20 16:58   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 17:05     ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-20 17:53     ` Henry Bent
2017-09-20 18:12       ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 18:33         ` Brad Spencer
2017-09-20 19:20           ` Henry Bent
2017-09-20 19:37           ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 19:58             ` Jacob Ritorto
2017-09-20 22:29               ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-20 22:31                 ` Warner Losh
2017-09-20 12:52 ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-20 13:33 ` Nemo
2017-09-20 15:39 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-20 15:42 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-20 16:58   ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-20 17:09     ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-20 17:31     ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 22:40 ` Steve Simon
2017-09-20 22:51   ` Erik Berls
2017-09-20 23:37 ` Robert Brockway
2017-09-21  1:47 ` Derrik Walker v2.0
2017-09-21  3:54 ` Gregg Levine
2017-09-21 14:33 ` Nicholas Chappell
2017-09-21 16:38   ` Mutiny 
2017-09-21 16:42     ` gilbertmm
2017-09-21 18:30     ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21 23:34     ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-25 10:36 ` Thomas Kellar
2017-09-28 12:53 [TUHS] RFS was: " Noel Chiappa
2017-09-28 14:09 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-09-28 14:35   ` Clem Cole
     [not found] <mailman.1219.1506559196.3779.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-09-28 14:08 ` David
2017-09-28 17:22   ` Pete Wright

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