[TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 31, Issue 5

[TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 31, Issue 5

[Larry McVoy]

> 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

[TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 31, Issue 5

[Tim Bradshaw]

On 15 May 2006, at 05:22, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> 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 memory, which may be wrong, is that some SunOS 4s had support for  
it (may be all did), so there are probably manuals and so forth which  
can still be found there.

--tim

[TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 31, Issue 5

[Larry McVoy]

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 08:46:33AM +0100, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> On 15 May 2006, at 05:22, Larry McVoy wrote:
> >
> >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 memory, which may be wrong, is that some SunOS 4s had support for  
> it (may be all did), so there are probably manuals and so forth which  
> can still be found there.

That's correct and I have those manuals somewhere (anyone want a full
set of 4.x manuals?)
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Larry McVoy                lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitkeeper.com

[TUHS] RFS (Remote? File System) (A. Wik)

[Berny 'Scouser' Goodheart]

From: "A. Wik" <aw@aw.gs>
>
> In the context of non-local file systems - Sun's NFS
> 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.
> 
> But that's all I know.  Does anyone know of useful
> sources of information (or just anecdotes, for that
> matter)?
> 
> -aw

There's an entire section devoted to RFS in the USL SVR4 Network
User's And Administrator's Guide. What is it you after
Exactly?

-Berny