darren@shapec.mdcbbs.com ((Darren Bolland)) (03/02/91)
Needed: NFS Details, Reports, References, Diagrams?
I'm currently doing some work with NFS. I would like to find out as much
about NFS as possible, to make sure that my investigation is complete.
I spoke to my local SUN Rep to see if they had anything that might help. All
they could suggest was the Sun Network Programming Manuals, and a single
White Paper that they had on Performance. Whilst these are quite useful, I
would like far more detail.
Don't SUN have any complete references available - They invented NFS didn't
they?
What I'm trying to do is to visualise the whole process that goes on in
the NFS - i.e Interaction with the various Daemons (nfsd, biod), RPC Calls,
Kernel Calls etc..(Diagrams would be nice!) What happens when you do an 'ls'
on a NFS File System - I have a Network Sniffer that I can use to get some
of this info. I'm also interested in File Locking, which we would like to use,
although I understand this has effects on Performance/Caching.
I've heard people talk about the NFS State Machine Model, and would be
interested in Details
Basically I would like pointers/references to *ANY* Documentation available,
and if you have any Papers Online I would be very grateful for them.
If there are details on ANON FTP Sites - I don't have access to Internet, so
if they are on Mail Servers all the better.
Hope this Newsgroup can help
Regards,
Darren
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