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From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] RFS
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:08:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5be7bd0177c9c57e@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiVDCdD8JLAvgA9Bbb8nHrUz=9JQY0U-LpeiPq9LTFAOYA@mail.gmail.com>

Douglas McIlroy writes:
> I was always sorry that Peter Weinberger's RFS never made it outside
> Bell Labs. It allowed networking between separately administered
> systems by mapping UIDs.

My experience with (SVR3) RFS can be summed up in two words:

	stateful, and brittle

We ran RFS on a "cluster" of four 3B2s, and while it worked, to
varying degrees, the statefulness of the protocol inevitably led
to the whole thing locking up, requiring a reboot of all four
machines to recover.  This was especially problematic when we
accessed the one 9-track drive over RFS when attempting backups.

I eventually gave up on it, and hauled out the Lachman NFS source
tape and got NFS running on all the machines.  Life was much happier
afterwards.

I do not miss RFS.

--lyndon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-08-13 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-13  0:59 [TUHS] NFS 40th anniversary event Tom Lyon
2025-08-13  1:55 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2025-08-13  3:05   ` Dave Horsfall
2025-08-13  5:59     ` [TUHS] Greetings! Phillip Harbison
2025-08-13 14:00     ` [TUHS] Re: NFS 40th anniversary event Douglas McIlroy
2025-08-13 14:18       ` Dan Cross
2025-08-13 14:59         ` arnold
2025-08-13 15:26           ` Douglas McIlroy
2025-08-13 15:34             ` arnold
2025-08-13 15:47           ` Martin Schröder
2025-08-14  3:43             ` arnold
2025-08-13 15:56         ` Larry McVoy
2025-08-13 16:24           ` Peter Weinberger (温博格) via TUHS
2025-08-13 16:43             ` Tom Lyon
2025-08-13 17:27               ` Larry McVoy
2025-08-13 20:24               ` Will Senn
2025-08-14  1:41               ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2025-08-14  2:04                 ` Tom Lyon
2025-08-14  0:31         ` Jonathan Gray
2025-08-14  0:54           ` Charles H. Sauer (he/him)
2025-08-14  1:28             ` Rich Salz
2025-08-14  1:29             ` Tom Lyon
2025-08-13 17:08       ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2025-08-13 20:40 [TUHS] RFS Steve Simon

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