I’m curious how software can be created and evolve over time. I’m afraid that at some point, we’ll realize there are issues with the software we’re using that can only be remedied by massive changes or a complete rewrite.

Are there any instances of this happening? Where something is designed with a flaw that doesn’t get realized until much later, necessitating scrapping the whole thing and starting from scratch?

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Not too relevant for desktop users but NFS.

    No way people are actually setting it up with Kerberos Auth

    • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nlEnglish
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      5 months ago

      100% this

      We need a networked file system with real authentication and network encryption that’s trivial to set up and that is performant and that preserves unix-ness of the filesystem, meaning nothing weird like smb, so you can just use it as you would a local filesystem.

      The OpenSSH of network filesystems basically.