Robin@turbo.RAY.COM ( Dr. R.P. Alston) (09/07/88)
We have a bunch of UNIX workstations (SGI 3130 actually) which we wish to provide a large disk service using NFS. We had planned to use a sun-3 with 300 Mbytes of disk thinking this would be moderatley compatible with the SGI UNIX in terms of file system semantics (ie they are both unix machines and understand things like symbolic links etc etc). Well that idea got nixed and some bright spark said that 'the company' will provide you with a vax-vms file server using the FUSION product called NFSS. Now I have a very bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. Apart from the fact that I have never been overly impressed with VMS just how is this going to affect the idea that I would want to use this disk service just as if it were another unix box. I want to be able to use symbolic links, makefiles, RCS and all those goodies that unix provides to support a large development environment. I do not just want a large disk server (which I think NFSS will certainly provide). Does anyone have any experience with NFSS and DEC-VMS and unix boxes in a like situation. Furthermore I *KNOW* a sun-3 will take me all of a morning to configure, I don't think that thats going to be the case with NFSS (especially since I am *NOT* the sysadmin on our vaxes, heaven forbid!) Mail first please. All responses welcome. -- ------------------------------------------------- # Whats worse than two MA drivers on a freeway? # Dr. Robin the REAL # Answer: One Toronto driver # SuperUser Atilla! ------------------------------------------------- (617)-490-3028 Robin@turbo.ray.com .....!rayssd!turbo!Robin