geoff@eagle_snax.UUCP ( R.H. coast near the top) (12/20/88)
In article <8812170248.AA03407@asylum.sf.ca.us> romkey@asylum.sf.ca.us writes: >Yeah, unfortunately the worst part of an NFS implementation on an IBM >PC is writing the redirector, >[...] >Next to this, I expect the implementation of the NFS protocol itself >to be almost a non-issue. > - john Almost true, but there are still many problems related to the NFS protocol implementation. Things like how and where you cache things to avoid unnecessary network traffic (directory searching is a good example); how you manage 32-byte file handles (you certainly can't store them in the FCB!); and how you map the various error conditions into the DOS error-handling framework (and coping with all those bugs - especially in DOS 3.0 and 4.0). Lots of good(?) stuff to keep engineers busy during the long winter nights... -- Geoff Arnold, Sun Microsystems Inc. +--------------------------------------+ PC Dist. Sys. Group (home of PC-NFS) |When you're fresh out of lawyers, you | UUCP: {hplabs,decwrl...}!sun!garnold |don't know how good it's going to feel| ARPA: garnold@sun.com +--------------------------------------+
root@wotk.UUCP (Superuser) (07/20/90)
Is there really a public domain version of NFS with source available?
(both clients and servers?)
Does the latest BSD have NFS?
If you have any details, please spill your guts.
I REALLY want to get hold of some NFS type source (mostly client side).
Thanks a mil.
Nick Hennenfent
Computone Products
1100 Northmeadow Parkway
Suite 150
Roswell, GA 30076
Voice 404 475-2725 FAX 404 343-9735 email ...!uunet!wotk!{root,nickh}geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (03/28/91)
Quoth jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) (in <17810@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>):
#In article <1991Mar26.171349.16002@visix.com> amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
#+Nope, nothing at all. It's been done, in fact. I believe that Sun has
#+a trademark on the acronym "NFS", and they like you to pay them some
#+nominal fee to call your own stuff "NFS," but I'm not completely sure.
#
#Uh, $45K and bend the knees please.
#(Or is that for the Sun source and the 'right' to call it NFS).
To use the NFS and ONC trademarks (and that neat little octagonal
ONC/NFS logo), it's $1,000. According to the latest edition of the
"ONC/NFS Technology Guide" the contact people are
Dennis Freeman or Felix Litman
Sun Microsystems
2550 Garcia Avenue
MS PAL1-416
Mountain View, CA 94043
415-336-0955 or 1249
And I've never seen anyone at Connectathon bending the knees....
-- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) --
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