From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 19:11:23 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] RFS was: Re: UNIX of choice these days? In-Reply-To: References: <20170923091704.GD10152@darioniedermann.it> <201709270844.v8R8i2kd021180@freefriends.org> Message-ID: On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 7:01 PM, Kevin Bowling wrote: > > What were the market forces or limitations that led to NFS prevailing? > ​Sun pretty much gave it away. It was simple and 'good enough.' The Issue was it not a real UNIX file system and did not support full UNIX semantics. For a lot of things (like program development) that was usually ok. It also exposed a lot a issues in user code - things like programs that never bothered to check for errors returns (like fclose). So bad things happened for a long time in a lot of code (silent holes in your SCCS files that did get detected until months later). But to Sun and NFS's credit, it solved a problem that was there and was cheap and so folks used it. Clem -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: