mark@bruce.oz (Mark Goodwin) (03/20/89)
I just installed Sun's Network File System (NFS) on an Apollo network using a Pyramid as the all-amighty server. Installed easily, and worked first go after the reboot. All fine. Display a 1Mbyte image stored on the Pyramid file system, wow, pretty fast, almost as fast as straight off the disk! Then I tried to compile some code stored on the Pyramid and discover the DOMAIN/IX C compiler can not create/store binary files or executable binaries! YAASU! (Yet Another Apollo StuffUp). The problem, it seems, is that an Apollo mounted file system is "typed" whereas the Pyramid (and any normal) Unix file system is not typed (all files are a simple byte stream). The only object types which can be accessed on a remote file system over NFS are directories and files. To us, wanting to develope code, Apollo NFS is no gain over TCP/IP on its own. Now my question; does anyone know if this problem exists under SR10 ? I have heard that SR10 is not as strongly typed as SR9.7. If NFS does not work under SR10 then I'll have to send it back for a refund (along with a very rude note). Any help appreciated, Mark Goodwin, Programmer @ Monash Uni. Dept. Comp. Sci.
lnz@LUCID.COM (Leonard N. Zubkoff) (03/21/89)
SR10.1 allows coff binaries to be written to and run from NFS file systems.