On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:26 PM, FRLinux <frli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> > wrote: >> The design process followed by the NFSv4 team members matches the >> methodology taken by the IPV6 people. (As in, once a mistake is made, > > Sorry, I'll bite. What exactly is wrong with IPv6 here? I gathered > from this list not a lot of developers here like it, but I still don't > get it. Please educate me (this should be enlightening).
Instead of fixing the one problem with v4, they decided to fix a thousand additional "problems" that nobody really cares about. When they powers that be extended C from 32 bits to 64 bits, they didn't also decide to throw in garbage collection, or xml parsing, or any other nonsense except what was actually needed. And look, adoption of 64 bit platforms is going quite well. Now compare with Itanium. It didn't just add 64 bits, it changed *everything*. And amd64 won, because it fixed the real problem without the clutter.
