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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:29:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: VFS mediator?
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > 	* CODA: nice if you want commit-on-close semantics and basically
> > want a lot of regular files.  More or less portable, userland side doesn't
> > require much glue.  Has a nice local caching and as the result bad for any
> > RPC-style uses.
> 
> And the only one that works when r/w mounted on localhost.

Wrong.  Trivial example: filesystem that doesn't cache data (and has no
mmap()).

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