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Article #72720Re: Distributed File System for "Hurd"?
From: Miles Bader
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1992 12:01
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1992 12:01
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jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes: > In article <1992Jan14.104223.9892@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>, umh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: > |> Isn't Andrew public domain, since it was invented at CMU? That might be easier > |> than trying to reverse-engineer NFS. > An advantage to supporting NFS is that it is so common; almost every Unix > box, together with PC's and Macs, can be made to speak it. Of course, FSF > can also support alternate filesystems (AFS, or GNNFS, for GNNFS is Not NFS). The disadvantage being that NFS is so suckful. For an enticing glimpse at something better, you might read the paper (well, there's probably more, but I've only seen one) on the DCE filesystem, DFS (which is really an evolution of AFS). However it's an awful lot more complicated than NFS... [AFS is a product, sold by transarc; the andrew *toolkit* is free...] -Miles -- -- Miles Bader -- HCRC, University of Edinburgh -- Miles.Bader@ed.ac.uk 97% of everything is grunge
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,b8ef17317c40d9f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-01-15 13:57:44 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!math.fu-berlin.de!uniol!unido!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!aisb!cogsci!miles From: miles@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Miles Bader) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Distributed File System for "Hurd"? Message-ID: <MILES.92Jan15120123@oliphant.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Date: 15 Jan 92 12:01:23 GMT References: <37447@icspub.ics.osaka-u.ac.jp> <1992Jan14.104223.9892@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <kn6g4dINN314@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Network News Administrator) Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu's message of 14 Jan 92 19:57:01 GMT