From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: A new NFSv4 server... Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:47:46 -0500 Message-ID: <20080104174746.GH17112@fieldses.org> References: <477CD231.30603@garzik.org> <20080103163200.GB30029@fieldses.org> <477DC501.3060104@garzik.org> <477DD11B.40909@melbourne.sgi.com> <477DDA86.6020100@garzik.org> <477DF761.8040306@panasas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff Garzik , NFS list , nfsv4@linux-nfs.org, Greg Banks To: Benny Halevy Return-path: Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:43819 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752035AbYADRr4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:47:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <477DF761.8040306@panasas.com> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:07:45AM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote: > Jeff, taking into account the amount of effort people and different > organizations have already put into NFSv4 and NFSv4.1 I wish you could > tunnel your inventive energy into making NFSv4.1 better rather than > trying to reinvent NFS/RPC/XDR. It's also important to have fun. Imagining what you could do from a clean slate is, if nothing else, a fun exercise. And it may end up with ideas that turn out to be implementable without starting from scratch. --b.