On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 14:20 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 05/08/2012 01:32 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> As I tried to explain, rewriting a couple of apps is not going to hack
> it. The apps don't*know* they're using a networked filesystem, they're
> just accessing files.
I suppose there could be a command line switch to control this. Please
understand that I'm only discussing ways this *might* be fixed, on a
program by program basis. Actually getting it done would require
persuading the maintainers that it's worth the effort unless somebody's
willing to step up, do the work and then get them to accept their patch.
I think you're underestimating the amount of extra effort this would
require for each program. It's not a simple patch by any means (even
assuming it's possible). Much more like a fork in fact. And as a general
rule, adding reliability code to any program makes it larger, slower
(because of extra network operations and checks) and a lot harder to
maintain. If this stuff was easy, it would be packaged and accessible to
the average programmer.
poc