Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:37:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:37:30 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:36103 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:37:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:36:07 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Alexander Viro Cc: Alan Cox , Simon Richter , Jonathan Barker , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VFS mediator? Message-ID: <20020318223607.GB1740@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020318192502.GD194@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > > * 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()). I meant only one from the list. NFS certainly has mmap, and others have it, too... Pavel -- Casualities in World Trade Center: ~3k dead inside the building, cryptography in U.S.A. and free speech in Czech Republic. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/