1 Apr
2011
1 Apr
'11
5:26 a.m.
Regardless of its technical merits (and I suspect that the implementation may have been
pretty bad) RFS was doomed by AT&T's licensing policies and general ineptitude at
marketing UNIX. Similarly the widespread adoption of NFS was driven by the fact that Sun
made it a de facto standard.
On Thu Mar 31st, 2011 7:51 PM PDT Nick Downing wrote:
I also looked up EDOTDOT and found reference to RFS but
not much info about
it. Why was it not used? Not reliable enough? I have often thought that
the stateless, idempotent NFS protocol leaves a lot to be desired due to its
inability to implement unix semantics (as discussed in the wikipedia stub
article on RFS), has this been improved with NFS4? Should RFS be revived
and used? Some of its features sounded quite attractive (location
transparency, etc). It does appear to have the ability to execute a program
remotely?? What happens with regard to PIDs, home directory etc in this
case? Does anyone know?
cheers, Nick
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Michael Davidson <
michael_davidson(a)pacbell.net> wrote:
> --- On *Thu, 3/31/11, Random832 <random832(a)fastmail.us>* wrote:
>
>
> EDOTDOT caught my eye for some reason - maybe because it's the only one
> you attributed to linux in a long list of SVr1 ones... what were 72
> through 76 in SVR1?
>
>
> As the comment indicates, EDOTDOT came from "RFS" - the almost never used
> "remote file system" that was (optionally, I think) part of System V
Release
> 3.
>
> As best I can recall, that is also where several of the other error numbers
> in the 72 - 79 range probably came from.
>
> Michael Davidson
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1 Apr
5:38 a.m.
New subject: Tracing origins of errno names/numbers
Michael Davidson scripsit:
Regardless of its technical merits (and I suspect that
the
implementation may have been pretty bad) RFS was doomed by AT&T's
licensing policies and general ineptitude at marketing UNIX. Similarly
the widespread adoption of NFS was driven by the fact that Sun made
it a de facto standard.
A familiar tale: NeWS vs. X was exactly the same story, only with the players
reversed.
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5:40 a.m.
New subject: Tracing origins of errno names/numbers
If people wish to discuss RFS vs NFS, I was there are Sun when all this
happened.
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:26:04PM -0700, Michael Davidson wrote:
Regardless of its technical merits (and I suspect that
the implementation may have been pretty bad) RFS was doomed by AT&T's licensing
policies and general ineptitude at marketing UNIX. Similarly the widespread adoption of
NFS was driven by the fact that Sun made it a de facto standard.
On Thu Mar 31st, 2011 7:51 PM PDT Nick Downing wrote:
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I also looked up EDOTDOT and found reference to
RFS but not much info about
it. Why was it not used? Not reliable enough? I have often thought that
the stateless, idempotent NFS protocol leaves a lot to be desired due to its
inability to implement unix semantics (as discussed in the wikipedia stub
article on RFS), has this been improved with NFS4? Should RFS be revived
and used? Some of its features sounded quite attractive (location
transparency, etc). It does appear to have the ability to execute a program
remotely?? What happens with regard to PIDs, home directory etc in this
case? Does anyone know?
cheers, Nick
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Michael Davidson <
michael_davidson(a)pacbell.net> wrote:
> --- On *Thu, 3/31/11, Random832 <random832(a)fastmail.us>* wrote:
>
>
> EDOTDOT caught my eye for some reason - maybe because it's the only one
> you attributed to linux in a long list of SVr1 ones... what were 72
> through 76 in SVR1?
>
>
> As the comment indicates, EDOTDOT came from "RFS" - the almost never used
> "remote file system" that was (optionally, I think) part of System V
Release
> 3.
>
> As best I can recall, that is also where several of the other error numbers
> in the 72 - 79 range probably came from.
>
> Michael Davidson
>
> _______________________________________________
> TUHS mailing list
> TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org
> https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs
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7:59 a.m.
New subject: RFS (was: Tracing origins of errno names/numbers)
On Thursday, 31 March 2011 at 20:40:23 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:26:04PM -0700, Michael
Davidson wrote:
Go ahead! I have always wondered what was wrong with RFS, though I
suppose a Sun employee might have a slightly close perspective.
Greg
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On Thu Mar 31st, 2011 7:51 PM PDT Nick Downing
wrote:
If people wish to discuss RFS vs NFS, I was there are Sun when all
this happened. On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Michael Davidson
wrote:
Regardless of its technical merits (and I suspect that the
implementation may have been pretty bad) RFS was doomed by AT&T's
licensing policies and general ineptitude at marketing UNIX.
Similarly the widespread adoption of NFS was driven by the fact that
Sun made it a de facto standard. EDOTDOT caught my eye for some reason - maybe
because it's the only one
you attributed to linux in a long list of SVr1 ones... what were 72
through 76 in SVR1?
As the comment indicates, EDOTDOT came from "RFS" - the almost never used
"remote file system" that was (optionally, I think) part of System V Release
3.
As best I can recall, that is also where several of the other error numbers
in the 72 - 79 range probably came from.
I also looked up EDOTDOT and found reference to RFS but not much info about
it. Why was it not used? Not reliable enough? I have often thought that
the stateless, idempotent NFS protocol leaves a lot to be desired due to its
inability to implement unix semantics (as discussed in the wikipedia stub
article on RFS), has this been improved with NFS4? Should RFS be revived
and used? Some of its features sounded quite attractive (location
transparency, etc). It does appear to have the ability to execute a program
remotely?? What happens with regard to PIDs, home directory etc in this
case? Does anyone know?
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