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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.

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

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When 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

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And also:

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

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== References ==