ypinn@UTORSCS.BITNET (Bruce Pinn (System Manager)) (01/10/88)
Hi;
Our site is considering purchasing Wollongong's NFS for VAX/VMS.
Does anyone on the 'net' have any experience with the package? Is the
performance of the NFS implementation reasonable? NFS is the Network
File System designed by SUN Microsystems; a distributed file system
for UNIX machines.
I should add that we have been running WIN/TCP for about 3 1/2 years.
Contrary to 'public opinion' we have found very few problems with the
software. Yes... I think I would even recommend it!
Bruce Pinn
Bruce W. Pinn BITNET: YPINN@UTORSCS.BITNET
Ontario Centre for Large Scale Computation Phone: (416) 978-6601KASHTAN@IU.AI.SRI.COM (David L. Kashtan) (01/11/88)
I am the person who wrote the NFS to which you refer. It was done as a demonstration project for SUN to show that NFS service was possible under VAX/VMS. It is done using SUN's "reference port" NFS server, which is a user-level server implementation. Eunice was used to bring the server up as quickly as possible and to provide the appropriate UNIX filesystem semantics. It has just about 100% correct semantics and the performance is adequate for "occasional" file access. It is NOT, however, fast enough to act as a serious SUN file server. As a result, I am just finishing up a Kernel-based NFS server for VAX/VMS (using SUN's kernel-based NFS server) that should have the requisite performance). It will be available as part of SRI's MultiNet Multi-Protocol networking product for VAX/VMS. David -------