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Re:Fallacies of Distributed Computing by cageface on Thursday April 21, 2011 @12:14PM (#2471174)
NFS on a well designed and maintained LAN is ok, but on any network less reliable I agree it's the wrong abstraction. You can only get away with hiding the network in those rare situations where the network can be made that robust.
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Re:Fallacies of Distributed Computing by pquerna on Thursday April 21, 2011 @12:51PM (#2471320)
That is the point though, the #1 Fallacies of Distributed Computing: The network is reliable.

There is no such thing as a well designed and maintained LAN. All networks are unreliable.

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Re:Fallacies of Distributed Computing by cageface on Thursday April 21, 2011 @06:36PM (#2472644)
I worked for the last ten years at a major animation studio where we pushed huge I/O over NFS every day. This was a lot easier to do with NFS semantics than it would have been with a less "fallacious" model, but we only got away with it because we had complete control over the whole network.
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