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by wbl 68 days ago
"NFS provides the semantics your applications expect" is one of the funniest things I have ever read.
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Do your applications not expect any network hiccup to cause them to block indefinitely in a system call making them effectively unkillable and making the filesystem unmountable?
Don't forget the locking semantics. That was fun and caused Sage to fail.
Compared to roll-your-own with S3 or GCS it does :)
Semanticness as a measurement.