Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Mar 1996 08:40:15 -0500 (EST) | From | Jauder Ho <> | Subject | Re: Linux DCE/DFS |
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AFS is available FYI
On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, David Arnold wrote:
> -->"Laszlo" == Laszlo Vecsey <master@micro.internexus.net> writes: > > Laszlo> Any hopes of having a distributed file system added to Linux > Laszlo> any time soon? Are there legal reasons why DCE/DFS can't be > Laszlo> implemented now (for free) in the kernel, are there > Laszlo> specifications available anywhere? > > DCE is composed of many parts. The RPC component has been made freely > available, and is in beta now for Linux. > > The security, naming and file services are not freely available. > They are large and quite complex - I wouldn't attempt to reimplement > them from the (scant) specs. > > > Wrt. distributed file systems, since both AFS and DFS are unavailable, > perhaps the Sprite file system is worth a look? i think it was quite > reasonable? or perhaps there's source for Coda about? > > d > > >
.sig under construction
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