13 Aug
2025
13 Aug
'25
2 p.m.
I was always sorry that Peter Weinberger's RFS never made it outside
Bell Labs. It allowed networking between separately administered
systems by mapping UIDs.
Doug
On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2025, Larry McVoy wrote:
I think Sun people love it, because the Sun
implementation just worked,
the rest of the world mostly hates it. I learned this when I left Sun
and got to use other NFS implementations, they sucked.
I can vouch for Sun's NFS working well, and others' not so much (zeroed
blocks returned etc)...
We supported BitKeeper on NFS which meant we had
to do lock files on NFS
on all platforms. Believe me when I say I know that other NFS
implementations were a mess. Read all the drama here:
I'm impressed by the workarounds for obscure kernel bugs :-)
-- Dave