20 Jun
2022
20 Jun
'22
5:19 a.m.
Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> writes:
On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 09:46:31PM +0100, Derek Fawcus
wrote:
I remember SunOS 4.x having RFS.. I never used it but I vaguely recall
(probably misremembering) that there was a warning in the man page about
it that it might not interoperate with /dev devices correct if the byte
order of the machines was different. I seem to recall that with RFS if
/dev was remoted you actually accessed the remote devices and not just
the device nodes from the system that /dev was mounted to. At the AT&T
site I was at we used NFS exclusively too.
--
Brad Spencer - brad(a)anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org
On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 10:00:19PM -0700, Kevin
Bowling wrote:
SunOS 4.x shipped RFS, Howard Chartok (my office mate at the time) did
the port I believe. Thankless work since Sun ran their entire campus
on NFS; RFS never got any attention. It's too bad because it did solve
some problems that NFS just punted on. NFS is Clem's law in action,
it was good enough, not great, but still won. On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 5:35 PM Douglas McIlroy
douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu> wrote:
Apparently. I've a book (ISBN 0-672-48440-4) with a short chapter on it within,
authored by Douglas Harris.
It happens to state:
AT&T's approach towards UNIX System V, Release 3.0 and beyond is to provide a
/Remote File System/ (RFS) that is an extension of the ordinary file system arrangement.
[???]
V8 also had Peter Weinberger's Remote File System. Unlike NFS, RFS
mapped UIDS, thus allowing files to be shared among computers in
different jurisdictions with different UID lists. Unfortunately, RFS
went the way of Reiser paging.
I believe RFS shipped in SVR3, at least as a package for the 3b2.