From: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Subject: Re: A new NFSv4 server...
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:55:53 +0200
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J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> 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.
>   
Absolutely :)
And I certainly hope it will benefit all of us.

Benny