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From: milne@ICS.UCI.EDU (Alastair Milne)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: NFS service
Message-ID: <8911171121.aa07047@ICS.UCI.EDU>
Date: 17 Nov 89 19:25:01 GMT
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To: comp.os.minix@ICS.UCI.EDU, comp.protocols.nfs@ICS.UCI.EDU


   I have only just started looking at this board, so this may be an old
   question.

   I am interested in knowing whether MINIX supports NFS.  Our project has a
   number of DOS micro's running PC/NFS, using as their server(s) UNIX hosts
   belonging to our department.  While this arrangement has served well so
   far, I'd be interested in having a server that could take over when the
   department's machines are temporarily unavailable.  We have a PS/2 model 
   80 with a 70 meg hard disc, which is an obvious candidate (we'd need to get
   a MicroChannel ethernet card for it, but that shouldn't be impossible); but
   obviously it would have to run some OS that actually could provide proper
   service (there is at least one NFS server for DOS that runs on top of
   PC-NFS, but apart from its restricted performance, it prevents an expensive
   and useful machine from doing anything else).  MINIX is an obvious choice;
   but we'd need to know about its NFS abilities.

   Thanks for any help,

   Alastair Milne,
   U.C. Irvine