Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: RFS vs. NFS Message-ID: <:4C5FLA@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 20 Aug 90 19:49:44 GMT References: <797@hades.ausonics.oz.au> <1940@cybaswan.UUCP> <279@prosun.first.gmd.de> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 10 For a third choice, Intel's OpenNET software runs on top of an OSI protocol stack, so you can kiss off TCP/IP, but they do provide support for DOS FS access. In addition, it's extremely easy to maintain and runs well on an ether shared with TCP/IP. It includes a concept known as "redirects", which allow many of the niceties of symbolic links, and you don't have to play games with remote mounts. Instead a super-root, "//", is created. To access files on a remote system, you access "//sysname/usr/bin...". You can use redirects if you want to slide these into your own file system to emulate remote mounts (say, for /usr/spool/news... though we prefer to access //xds13/usr/spool/news remotely). Named pipes and all that jazz work fine. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com (currently not working) peter@hackercorp.com