The context was definitely HPC, but that's mostly because it's the last place where this problem persists in a very big way. The WORM workloads that serve up m

The context was definitely HPC, but that's mostly because it's the last place where this problem persists in a very big way. The WORM workloads that serve up most of the data we consume globally just rejected POSIX entirely and created the scalable object interfaces we know and love. It was very obvious that having every Roku in the world mount a Netflix file system over the WAN was insane, so nobody had to write an article calling for the end of that bad behavior. Updating POSIX, whether it be through more expressive consistency options or just giving middleware developers the knobs they need to implement such mechanisms themselves, has come up before[1], as you say. My worry is that many of the serious efforts from years past were ahead of their time, and hyperscale has gone their own way so the ship has sailed on POSIX I/O. [1] http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/posix/ http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/posix/