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From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 31, Issue 5
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 21:22:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060515042238.GA25047@bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.3.1147658400.31029.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>

> in particular - I've seen RFS be mentioned.  This was
> AT&T's implementattion of transparent real-time (for
> contrast with UUCP, FTP, etc.) remote file access.

It wasn't real time, it was "remote file system" == RFS.

It was different than NFS in that it was stateful and that it knew that the
other side knew what it knew (think ioctls, yuck).  

My officemate worked on it, it was problematic.  Don't go there.  NFS is
bad enough, but it works.
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Larry McVoy                lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitkeeper.com



       reply	other threads:[~2006-05-15  4:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.3.1147658400.31029.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2006-05-15  4:22 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2006-05-15  7:46   ` Tim Bradshaw
2006-05-15 14:02     ` Larry McVoy
2006-05-15 10:57 ` [TUHS] RFS (Remote? File System) (A. Wik) Berny 'Scouser' Goodheart

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