rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) (02/01/91)
After consulting with Seemong Tan (stan@cs.uiuc.edu), author of an NFS server package for DOS called SOS (Stan's Own Server), I've decided to try putting this system into use at my company. As of this date, I know of no other means of running an NFS server under DOS as a gateway to other networks such as Novell. SOS provides the means to do this, and it's in the public domain. I intend make this software more robust with version 2, and place the mods back into the public domain. You can help! First, I'm looking for beta sites to test out my changes, and second, I'm looking for any sites which presently distribute this software (as on sun.soe.clarkson.edu) so they can be updated. Please send me e-mail describing how you intend to use this software (as in what kinds of client systems, how many, what type of system you plan to run it on--it takes a dedicated PC on the Ethernet), and how best to distribute it to you (hopefully ftp). Also let me know if you're interested in hacking sources or just testing binaries. Another item which would be very helpful is a set of caching algorithms which handle concurrency issues, etc. This software presently does not attempt to cache file handles (except between read calls on a given file) or data blocks. Thanks, -rich rbraun@spdcc.com