Standards Update, IEEE 1003.4: Real-time Extensions

[Chip Salzenberg]

Submitted-by: chip at tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)

According to brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein):
>NFS (as it is currently implemented) shows what goes wrong when
>reliability disappears.

In a discussion of filesystem semantics, NFS is a straw man.  Everyone
knows it's a botch.

If AFS and RFS don't convince one that a networked filesystem
namespace can work well, then nothing will.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip at tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>

Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 139