From: Brent Callaghan (Brent.Callaghan@eng.sun.com)
Date: 05/22/98-12:51:55 PM Z
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 10:51:55 -0700 From: Brent.Callaghan@eng.sun.com (Brent Callaghan) Message-Id: <199805221751.KAA18831@terra.eng.sun.com> Subject: NFS scalability > From tytso@MIT.EDU Thu May 21 20:38:14 1998 > > I would very much like to see an open distributed filesystem standard > which has the features of AFS and DFS. Perhaps it won't be NFS v4, but > it would be awfully nice if the IETF could sponsor a working group which > had those features --- without carrying the entire DCE baggage with it, > which was the failing of DFS. Yes, a way to avoid this is to think of NFS v4 as a "core" or enabling protocol for Internet file access. Subsequent standards efforts may then build a variety of naming, replication and other services that utilize the core protocol. In designing v4 we can perhaps extend or remove some features of the protocol that have made these services difficult to add, e.g. allowing filehandles to be volatile. Brent
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