RFS vs. NFS

[Robert Plamondon]

In article <4496 at megaron.arizona.edu> lm at megaron.arizona.edu.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes:
>And a further comment on stateless file systems:  when working on the
>Apollos, it was rarely, if ever the sort of disaster envisioned by the
>stateless advocates when a node crashed.  I dunno how, but somehow or
>other things seemed to work ok.  You noticed that certain trees of
>files were "gone".  That's all.  Nothing worse.

To me, NOTHING is worse than losing files due to a server crash!  The
server can burst into flames and slag down on the computer floor for
all I care, just so long as somewhere in the smoking mass of
ex-hardware is a disk drive that still has my work on it.  Hardware
comes and goes, operating systems can be reloaded, but the user's work is
all-important!

	-- Robert
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    Robert Plamondon
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