Re: efs being abandoned

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1 total messages Started by Mark Tue, 07 Oct 1986 08:33

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Author: Mark
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1986 08:33

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We wanted to use EFS (which our 3.0 release notes said was supported) to put
our on line manuals on one machine. (We have 23 5500s networked together,
seemed a shame to waste so much disk with redundant information.) Anyway, I
couldn't get it to work. After checking around the system I noticed that
there was no efsdaemon anywhere to be found so I called our Masscomp rep in
San Jose.

He said that EFS was a "non-product", that they were unable to get all the
bugs out so they were going to go to using NFS and that it would not be
ready in the next little while. If I remember correctly he indicated that it
would be a year or so.

I solved the manual problem with a shell script which uses rsh to call up
the manual pages remotely after making sure the "manual-host" is up.

If it's of value to you I can mail it to you.

		- Mark Dyer

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