droms@mordred (Ralph E. Droms) (10/04/85)
Can anyone supply me with a pointer to an implementation of SUN NFS for 4.2BSD running on an 11/780? I am aware of mtxinu's version - I'm looking for one that's "free/cheap to universities". We have both 4.2BSD and SUN source licenses. Does anyone have any experience with hacking NFS code into the 4.2BSD kernel? - Ralph -- Ralph Droms ihnp4!purdue!droms CS G73 droms@purdue.arpa Dept. of Computer Science droms@purdue.csnet Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907
pete@ecrcvax.UUCP (Pete Delaney) (10/17/85)
I installed NFS on our VAX 785; it was really quite easy. The biggest problem is making sure you put the sun includes in /usr/include before letting the kernel makefile make genasym.s; I actually had the greatest problems with the chaos problem (see article in Re: NFS and chaosnet). Sun's installiation quide was quite good. Sun's panic claa traceback is a nice addition. Once the system boots you can go multi-user but umount wont work. The /etc/fstab format has been changed along with the umount system call. The mount daemon assumes the internet server is running; so you want to get a copy of 4.3BSD or 4.2.5 (Turbo). The list of files in the makefile is getting very long. My current kernel has internet, chaosnet, and ISO networks along with a bunch of X25 stuff. I'm currently splitting the makefile defines for CFILES and OFILES. Someone should fix config to do this; any volinters from sun :-) I've got my hands full untangling the OSI and internet code. Anyway, performance seems about the same, possibly a bit slower: find 50% faster due to improved nami() make 10% slower due to VFS overhead and the VFS code is really nice. -- -------------------------------------------- Pete Delaney - Rocky Mnt. Unix Consultant Phone: (49) 89 92699-139 European Computer-Industry Research Center UUCP: mcvax!unido!ecrcvax!pete ArabellaStrasse 17 UUCP Domain: pete@ecrcvax.UUCP D-8000 Muenchen 81, West Germany X25: (262)-45890040262 CSNET:pete%ecrcvax.UUCP@Germany.CSNET Login: <to be provided?> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------