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I can't believe they didn't toss in the "Not Working Filesystem" joke as a freebie. Another way to have thumb-twiddling fun was for all the machines in a build
by B1FF_PSUVM 4y ago
I can't believe they didn't toss in the "Not Working Filesystem" joke as a freebie.
Another way to have thumb-twiddling fun was for all the machines in a building to reboot - power failure, whatever - and then spend a lot of time waiting for each other's cross-mounted NFS shares to come up.
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> such as AFS (the Andrew File System)
That one prompted a senior engineer, on learning that it was to be deployed to undergrad's lab machines, to let slip "Why inflict it on the hapless livestock?"
- eddyfromtheblok 4y agoAFS had (has?) a nice ACL implementation, compared to the opportunity that NFS provided of mangling security with UID mismatches.
- B1FF_PSUVM 4y agoI wasn't directly involved, but I think the AFS design was OK, the problem was that they were deploying "diskless" workstations (just the OS, no data on the local HD). Back in the day of 1 MHz machines, with 3 Mbps net, having your home dir on a network file system was a tad hopeful - or hopeless ...