From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: NFS 40th anniversary event
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:00:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiVDCdD8JLAvgA9Bbb8nHrUz=9JQY0U-LpeiPq9LTFAOYA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.2508131302230.53898@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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.
Doug
On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2025, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> > I think Sun people love it, because the Sun implementation just worked,
> > the rest of the world mostly hates it. I learned this when I left Sun
> > and got to use other NFS implementations, they sucked.
>
> I can vouch for Sun's NFS working well, and others' not so much (zeroed
> blocks returned etc)...
>
> > We supported BitKeeper on NFS which meant we had to do lock files on NFS
> > on all platforms. Believe me when I say I know that other NFS
> > implementations were a mess. Read all the drama here:
>
> I'm impressed by the workarounds for obscure kernel bugs :-)
>
> -- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-13 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ 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 ` Douglas McIlroy [this message]
2025-08-13 14:18 ` [TUHS] Re: NFS 40th anniversary event 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 ` [TUHS] RFS Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
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