A yak shave with SGI's EFS

Re:A yak shave with SGI's EFS by cup-of-tea on Friday July 06, 2018 @02:55AM (#17469491)

While interesting, a yak shave is where you go off on a long excursion to solve a problem that helps you solve the real problem. This, on the other hand, is just having a hobby. Calling it yak shaving doesn't seem appropriate.

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Re:A yak shave with SGI's EFS by octorian on Friday July 06, 2018 @11:51AM (#17472398)

The long excursion might be seen as implementing all that code to do EFS-to-TAR. (Rather than figure out how to compile a Linux kernel module, or run an old version of Linux on something.)

If I was trying to do this project, I'd just do what it took to get an EFS-supporting OS up and running, expose via NFS, and be done with it.

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Re:A yak shave with SGI's EFS by ucsdrake on Friday July 06, 2018 @08:49AM (#17470955)

You must be fun at parties.

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