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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: A challenge to all true kernel hackers - conditional symlinks.
Message-ID: <gl9nv8a@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
References: <JKH.93Mar9214944@whisker.lotus.ie> <C3ow4H.FID@BitBlocks.com> <C3w61A.8wI@sugar.neosoft.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 01:01:49 GMT
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In article <C3w61A.8wI@sugar.neosoft.com>, peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> In article <1993Mar14.070820.17710@netcom.com> thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:
> > NFS and symbolic links especially don't mix:
>
> NFS is brain dead. Given my druthers, I'd dump NFS. It's fundamentally broke
> in so many ways it's not funny.
>
> OK, OK, NFS is sure better than the client-server stuff you get on DOS
> platforms, but it's long past time to replace *it*, and the low-level
> interfaces that support it, with something more UNIX-like.
So stop whining and replace it already!
Just don't make the mistakes of others like Transarc.
And do the things right that B.Lyon & co. did:
-know what problem you're trying to solve, and solve that problem
reasonably well.
-ignore all of the other problems you are not solving.
-(practially) give away the source.
Transarc seems to be bent on violating all of those rules, as well as
more obvious ones like "keep it small and simple enough for 2 or 3
people (at most) to write the whole thing." 3 MByte of kernel binary
text and 30 MByte of user library binaries, indeed!
Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com