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Martin Schr=F6der <martin@oneiros.de> wrote:

> Am Mi., 13. Aug. 2025 um 17:00 Uhr schrieb <arnold@skeeve.com>:
> > It was a different RFS, developed by USG.  It had full Unix semantics,
> > including ioctls and fcntl, for machines of the same architecture. It
> > was stateful, which meant if the server went away, you could hang your
> > shell at the very least. It first came out in SVR3.
>
> Was that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_File_Sharing ?

Yes.

> If so, that article wants some love from an expert.

I"m not enough of an expert to tackle it. I used RFS in a classroom
setting for a few years, but that's it, and that was ~ 30 years ago.

> And what became of it?

It never caught on. Source for it can be found in SVR3 and SVR4,
if you have those.

Arnold