Re: attempt to re-implement sillyrename for NFS in 2.1.*

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
Wed, 27 Aug 1997 23:26:29 +0200 (Funky)


Hi,

Alan Cox wrote:
>
>> I'd define "reasonable" as "'tail -f FOO & rm FOO' has a chance of working".
>> Think not about renames, nor hardlinks, it's not worth the bother. IMHO.
>>
>> NB: _Is_ anybody working on a usable stateful shared file system for Linux?
>
>SMBfs, NCPfs, CODA ?
>
SMB currently can't carry Unix file attributes too well.
I expect the same to be true for NCP.

>CODA especially has a lot of promise but is also an extremely complex system.
>
Which might be a problem if it's going to be a possible NFS replacement.

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Matthias Urlichs
noris network GmbH