rot@unlisys.in-berlin.de (Robert Rothe) (03/13/91)
hi,
does InterActive plan to support BSD Filesystem in their next
SysVr3 Release (2.2.3) ? and not to wait until their SysVr4 ?
there are many (non-PC) sysVr3 unix* available that already
support such hybridsolutions ...
would be a good thing ...
robert.
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* Ein Krieg ist um nichts besser als ein gewoehnlicher Mord *tmh@prosun.first.gmd.de (Thomas Hoberg) (03/16/91)
In article <402@tokyo07.UUCP>, jimmy@tokyo07.info.com (Jim Gottlieb) writes: |> In article <7360@unlisys.in-berlin.de> rot@unlisys.in-berlin.de (Robert Rothe) writes: |> > |> >does InterActive plan to support BSD Filesystem in their next |> >SysVr3 Release (2.2.3) ? |> > |> >would be a good thing ... |> |> Would be a VERY good thing. |> |> Symbolic links alone would be worth whatever they would charge for it. |> NFS is practically worthless without symbolic links. Oh yes, symbolic links are really nice. But NFS is *not* worthless without symbolic links. Actually NFS can be (ab)used to provide something link symbolic links to those without. While I believe that file systems under ISC's implementation of NFS (and maybe any other) can only be exported as a whole any node in the directory tree of the imported file system can be a mount point. Example: We have a big /usr/local/{bin,lib,emacs,gnu} directory on the root file system of one machine and stripped down versions on others. Now even though /usr/local is not a mount point on the exporting machine, we can mount bigdisk:/usr/local at /usr/local an the smaller machines, conveniently over- shadowing the files already there (which are still usable in a standalone configuration). While it incurrs extra overhead through NFS you can use it to place any subdirectory tree of any file system anywhere in the file system tree by exporting and re-importing it elsewhere. I used to think that NMOUNT was unreasonably high at 25, but... You may seriously confuse backup procedures and end up saving the same files several times, but while it's not as nice as symbolic links, it's better than nothing.. -- :-> tom ---- Thomas M. Hoberg | UUCP: tmh@bigfoot.first.gmd.de or tmh%gmdtub@tub.UUCP c/o GMD Berlin | ...!unido!tub!gmdtub!tmh (Europe) or D-1000 Berlin 12 | ...!unido!tub!tmh Hardenbergplatz 2 | ...!pyramid!tub!tmh (World) Germany | BITNET: tmh%DB0TUI6.BITNET@DB0TUI11 or +49-30-254 99 160 | tmh@tub.BITNET