toddb@tekcrl.UUCP (Todd Brunhoff) (02/18/86)
I have gotten many inquiries about this from people who have seen the bug fixes appear on the net, but never saw the announcement describing it. What follows is the original blurb which is taken from the beginning of the installation document. ---------------------- This document provides all documentation for installation, maintenance and adjustment of RFS, a public domain, kernel-resident distributed file system, written by me for partial fulfillment of the master's degree program at the University of Denver. It was designed to provide complete transparency with respect to file access and protections for all programs whether they use local or remote files and directories. It has been installed on VAX BSD 4.2 and 4.3 UNIX, Pyramid 4.2/5.0 UNIX, version 2.5, and on a Tektronix* 68010-based internal proprietary workstation, called Magnolia. The instructions are designed in a way that keeps all changes separate from your standard sources, in hope that it will encourage sites to try the installation. Todd Brunhoff toddb%crl@tektronix.csnet decvax!tektronix!crl!toddb * I happen to work at Tektronix Computer Research Labs. So just in case RFS should not be confused with another completely different (but excellent) implementation from Tektronix available on the 6000 series workstation, called DFS, and done by a separate product group. The work on RFS was designed and written strictly by the author of this paper at about the same time as DFS, and draws none of its implementation details from DFS. Also, RFS should not be confused with an implementation by the same name done by Bell Labs. I was not aware of Bell Labs' RFS at the time I named mine. My RFS is public domain, while DFS and Bell Labs' RFS is proprietary. ----------------------- Since the original posting, RFS has been installed at 21 sites having between 2 and 20 machines, and I believe is being installed at about 6 other sites. If you are interested in RFS, send me mail at the above address and I will tell you how you can get it. It is free.