Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:46:30 -0400 | From | Chip Salzenberg <> | Subject | RFS? |
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, AT&T created a network file system called "RFS". It had many advantages over NFS: UNIX semantics (remote mounting /dev/tty7!), uid mapping (e.g. "chip" didn't have to be the same uid on different machines), and some others I can't think of right now.
Like many, I don't think much of NFS. ("I'd rather have a network file system than NFS." -- Geoff Collyer) I'd rather use RFS. Unfortunately, right about the time that Sun and AT&T became strange bedfellows and Slowlaris became SVR4, RFS seemed to drop below the industry's collective radar, and I haven't heard anything about it since.
Has anyone reverse-engineered RFS for the free unices? Are there working alternatives to NFS that have some of RFS's good qualities? adTHANKSvance -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com> "Gomez! I just invented the wheel!!" //MST3K
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