Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!jones.cis.ohio-state.edu!george From: george@jones.cis.ohio-state.edu (George M. Jones) Newsgroups: comp.os.mach Subject: Re: References/Info on NFS ports to mach Message-ID: Date: 21 Nov 89 15:32:43 GMT References: <17098@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> <11658@smoke.BRL.MIL> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: george@tut.cis.ohio-state.eduGeorge M. Jones Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 33 In-reply-to: floyd@smoke.BRL.MIL's message of 21 Nov 89 13:58:29 GMT In article <11658@smoke.BRL.MIL> floyd@smoke.BRL.MIL (Floyd C. Wofford) writes: In article <17098@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> smiller@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Steven M. Miller) writes: >Is there any reports/papers/etc out there on what was done to port >NFS to Mach? > >-Steve I know of no reports, but BBN has a machine which runs both Mach and NFS. ^^^^ ^^^^ The generic name is Butterfly. Sort of. From what I understand they took a very early release from CMU (release 0 ?) and have pretty much done their own thing with it ever since, not tracking CMU changes. As of the next release they are dropping support for tasks and ports, and never had threads (C-threads anyhow) and are changing the name to nX. Depending on on your interests though you might want to get in touch with them. They have done extensive work with the memory managment code (has anyone else tried to put a Unix-like OS on a NUMA machine ?) and did their own NFS port. For starters you can try reaching them at bf-questions@bbn.com...which I think is intended largly for customer support, but I don't think they will be TOO annoyed at a request for information. I could be wrong :-) ---George Jones -=- OSU Computer & Inf. Science 2036 Neil Ave.,Columbus,Ohio 43210. 614-292-7325 george@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!osu-cis!george "When goods don't cross borders, armies will" ---Frederic Bastiat