yozzo@larouch.uucp (Ralph Yozzo) (01/08/90)
What are people's thoughts about using the IFS interface to implement an NFS client for OS/2? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Ralph E. Yozzo | | | Arpanet: yozzo@ibm.com | | | Bitnet: yozzo@yktvmx.bitnet \---------------------------------------| | Home: ..!uunet!bywater!acheron!larouch!yozzo | Phone: (914) 945-3634 work | | | Phone: (914) 564-4731 home | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
alistair@microsoft.UUCP (Alistair BANKS) (01/10/90)
In article <1990Jan8.044311.1912@larouch.uucp> yozzo@larouch.UUCP (Ralph Yozzo) writes: >What are people's thoughts about using the IFS interface to >implement an NFS client for OS/2? > >| Ralph E. Yozzo | | The installable file system interface is THE interface for network redirectors (and any arbitrary file system) under os/2 1.2 and beyond and is therefore the correct interface for an NFS client. I would add that the IFS specification is not published in the 1.2 toolkit, but will likely be with later versions of the device driver kit. It is the interface to which the High Performance File System (HPFS) and LanMan are written and will be used to support any remote or non-FAT file system. The work is obviously non-trivial. I would encourage people to get this work done and would be interested to hear from people who have prior experience implementing NFS clients and who have a serious interest in doing this work for OS/2. Of course, this work would best be done by someone who has a major interst in NFS, such as Sun - If this is important to you I might suggest some lobbying in that direction to let Sun know that a large number of people would like this product. Alistair Banks OS/2 Group Microsoft
gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (01/12/90)
alistair@microsoft.UUCP (Alistair BANKS) wrote: > Of course, this work would best be done by someone who has a major > interst in NFS, such as Sun - If this is important to you I might > suggest some lobbying in that direction to let Sun know that a large > number of people would like this product. This sounds quite misleading to me. I think at this point it's *Microsoft* who had better get on the stick and put NFS on "their" OS. That is, if they want "their" OS to talk to anybody else's file systems. I doubt the lack of Microsoft connectivity is strangling Sun sales. Last I heard you couldn't even get TCP/IP for OS-1/2. Architec was selling an OS-1/2 NeWS, but it couldn't network with any other NeWS because they couldn't find a TCP. Though I must say I haven't been tracking OS-1/2 closely. I figured why buy Unix over ten slow years of development when you can get the real thing today -- and without being stuck on intel hardware or with one vendor. -- John Gilmore {sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@toad.com Just say *yes* to drugs. Say "no" to undeclared wars on sovereign countries.