13 Aug
2025
13 Aug
'25
4:24 p.m.
It was a research proof-of-princple. (i.e.. partly principled and
partly really hacky. My list of its issues was pretty long.)
(If A mounted B's file system somewhere, and B mounted A's, then the
directory tree was infinite. That's mathematics, not a bug.)
On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 10:18:34AM -0400, Dan Cross wrote:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 10:00???AM Douglas
McIlroy
<douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu> wrote:
Sunos had it, my office mate ported it. I was unimpressed, it worked well
between the same archs but was riddled with byte order problems and
ioctl calls that were not portable. 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.
I believe it did? If I recall correctly, it was available with System
V, though perhaps I am misremembering.