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DCE/DFS is believed to be the world's only distributed filesystem that correctly implements the full POSIX filesystem semantics, including byte range locking. DCE/DFS was sufficiently reliable and stable to be utilised by [[IBM]] to run the back-end filesystem for the [[1996]] [[Olympics]] web site, seamlessly and automatically distributed and edited worldwide in different timezones.

In the mid-'80s, the experience was summarized thusly:

<blockquote>

When software's designed by committee<br>

The quality's frequently shitty<br>

For example, please see<br>

OSF's DCE<br>

I think you'll agree it's a pity

</blockquote>

And also:

<blockquote><i>Crash remotely&mdash;hang locally</i></blockquote>

== References ==