30 Sep
2000
30 Sep
'00
10:37 a.m.
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 08:38:43AM -0700, Eyal Traitel wrote:
Isn't it the exact purpose of Unix' vnodes, and NT's redirectors ? The network file system inventors tried to attack this issue, so if applications aren't written correctly, this is not on the file server to solve, this is on the app. writer side...
But many people are wary of 'non-local' disk because a friend of a friend once told a story about how someone in the past once had an undisclosed problem with an undescribed system that might have used a shared filesystem.
Anyway, isn't faster-access what DAFS is going to provide?
James.