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From: truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacNFS
Message-ID: <256CEFB4.15920@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 24 Nov 89 07:37:23 GMT
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aruigrok@bnr.ca (Adrian C Ruigrok) writes:

>A while back CITI created MacNFS so the Mac could use a standard NFS 
>server as an Macintosh volume.  I understand Apple purchased the rights to 
>this product.  What happened then.  Where has it gone.  Is Apple sitting 
>on it, or is it still caught up in legalities.  

I have talked to a test site for the product and he offered some 
comments. Remember folks, you're getting these 3rd-hand.

  1. It is slow.
  2. It is buggy.

In other discussions on this net, people who know more about this
than I have stated that there are enough differences in the various
protocol layers as to make 1 to 1 mapping very non-trivial. I guess
this is a rather stilted way of saying that MacNFS is very hard to
write. There are several "judgement calls" about how a feature of one
filing system should be mapped to the other. Cayman seems to have done 
it in there GatorBox. It's slow, and it crashes, but it works.

  --scott

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Scott Truesdell