Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 04 Jun 1998 13:04:29 -0400 | From | "Kevin K. Sochacki" <> | Subject | Re: RFS? |
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If I recall correctly RFS only worked in homogeneous environments, as opposed to NFS which works in a heterogeneous environments.
Chip Salzenberg wrote: > > 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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
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