[comp.os.vms] Wollongong's NFS for VAX/VMS

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) 978-6601

KASHTAN@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
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