Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 06, 2004 01:39 AM
"Using DECnet, it was possible to simply prepend the node name ahead of the filename on the remote system"
You mean like<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/net/host/foobar with NFS or<nobr> <wbr></nobr>//host/mount with SMB?
The reason people don't like that (in particular in the UNIX world) is because encoding host names in paths is an administrative nightmare for a large site. DECNET was too simplistic in this area (as in many other areas).
"but I am concerned that the past decade and a half has seen too much reinvention of wheels and too little original research."
There has been a lot of research in this area: CODA and Intermezzo, Plan9, user-mode file systems, etc. People just need to implement and use the research.
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Re:Digital Had it Then
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 06, 2004 01:39 AMYou mean like<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/net/host/foobar with NFS or<nobr> <wbr></nobr>//host/mount with SMB?
The reason people don't like that (in particular in the UNIX world) is because encoding host names in paths is an administrative nightmare for a large site. DECNET was too simplistic in this area (as in many other areas).
"but I am concerned that the past decade and a half has seen too much reinvention of wheels and too little original research."
There has been a lot of research in this area: CODA and Intermezzo, Plan9, user-mode file systems, etc. People just need to implement and use the research.
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