From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pete@nomadlogic.org (Pete Wright) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:22:10 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] RFS was: Re: UNIX of choice these days? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 09/28/2017 07:08, David wrote: >> It's important to note, when talking about NFS, that there was Sun's NFS >> and everyone else's NFS. Sun ran their entire company on NFS. /usr/dist >> was where all the software that was not part of SunOS lived, it was an >> NFS mounted volume (that was replicated to each subnet). It was heavily >> used as were a lot of other things. The automounter at Sun just worked, >> wanted to see your buddies stuff? You just cd-ed to it and it worked. >> >> Much like mmap, NFS did not export well to other companies. When I went >> to SGI I actually had a principle engineer (like Suns distinguished >> engineer) tell me "nobody trusts NFS, use rcp if you care about your >> data". What. The. Fuck. At Sun, NFS just worked. All the time. >> The idea that it would not work was unthinkable and if it ever did >> not work it got fixed right away. >> >> Other companies, it was a checkbox thing, it sorta worked. That was >> an eye opener for me. mmap was the same way, Sun got it right and >> other companies sort of did. >> > I remember the days of NFS Connect-a-thons where all the different > vendors would get together and see if they all interoperated. It was > interesting to see who worked and who didn’t. And all the hacking to > fix your implementation to talk to vendor X while not breaking it working > with vendor Y. > > Good times indeed. It is funny you mention this - someone mentioned RedHat is doing something similar to this in Boston next week: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2017-September/067013.html -pete -- Pete Wright pete at nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA