From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kevin.bowling@kev009.com (Kevin Bowling) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:13:07 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] RFS was: Re: UNIX of choice these days? In-Reply-To: References: <20170923091704.GD10152@darioniedermann.it> <201709270844.v8R8i2kd021180@freefriends.org> Message-ID: I guess alternatively, what was interesting or neat, about RFS, if anything? And what was bad? On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 4:11 PM, Clem Cole wrote: > > > 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