vaf@VALINOR.STANFORD.EDU (Vince Fuller) (11/09/89)
Has anyone ever tried merging NFS code into the TAHOE kernel? If so, what was the origin of your NFS code and how difficult was the merge? We have some old 4.3 systems (with old NFS code) which I'd like to bring up-to-date, and any experiences that others have had would be appreciated. Thanks, Vince Fuller, Stanford University Networking
dls@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (David L Stevens) (11/14/89)
I merged 4.3T (really post 4.3T) code into our NFS-speaking Sequent machines running DYNIX 2.1 and later DYNIX 3.0.X, X=1-17 (I believe). The interactions were minimal and virtually all the changes I had were due to the need for locking and reentrant code on a multiprocessor. For the most part the layer division keeps you worry free; you just need to make sure all the functions you're using have the arguments and semantics you want; busy work, really. The only difference that I remember offhand is the need for a larger max UDP packet size, but there were probably a couple other minor ones. -- +-DLS (dls@mentor.cc.purdue.edu)