seenu@isieng.UUCP (Seenu Banda) (05/26/88)
I am posting this for a friend of mine. ------------------- I have a question regarding Apollo and Sun NFS. We have a network of Sun workstations (4.3BSD + NFS) and an apollo (4.2 Domain/IX). We are porting some software from Sun environment to Apollo and in doing so had to duplicate source on both (Sun and Apollo) due to lack of NFS connection between Sun and Apollo. This resulted in disk space problems on the Apollo. So, now the problem: * How can we integrate apollo into the Sun NFS environment? * Does apollo follow standard NFS protocol. (No mention of NFS was made in any of the manuals). * First of all, can it be done with minor fixes/patches to existing code? * If so, could you please give me pointers as to where to start? * If not, is there any public/private domain software which does this? Sorry for asking so many questions in one breath. Any ideas, theories, anything at all will be greatly appreciated. -------- I will gladly pass along any information to the person concerned. Seenu Banda ..!pyramid!isieng!seenu -- Seenu ..pyramid!isieng!seenu
jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (James E. Conley) (05/27/88)
NFS is available for Apollos from Apollo. It does have some problems though. The major problem we have is that you cannot mount a non-Apollo NFS partition and expect everything to work as if it were an Apollo disk. The reason for this (I believe) is problems with file types. Our major gripe with this is that we cannot execute programs that are on an NFS partition on our VAX. III Usenet: iuvax!jec UUU I UUU ARPANet: jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu U I U Phone: (812) 335-7729 U I U U.S. Mail: Indiana University U I U Dept. of Computer Science UUUIUUU 021-E Lindley Hall I Bloomington, IN. 47405 III (Home of Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers)