2009/8/4 erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>: >> > >> > Google? >> >> the exception that proves the rule? they emphatically >> don't go for posix semantics... > > why would purveryers of 9p give a rip about posix sematics?
from ron: > 10,000 machines, working on a single app, must have access to a common > file store with full posix semantics and it all has to work like it > were one machine (their desktop, of course). ... and gfs does things that aren't easily compatible with 9p either, such as returning the actually-written offset when appending to a file.
