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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: RFS vs. NFS
Message-ID: <2BF5=R2@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 24 Aug 90 16:17:33 GMT
References: <797@hades.ausonics.oz.au> <1940@cybaswan.UUCP> <279@prosun.first.gmd.de> <LARRY.90Aug16085629@focsys.uucp> <:4C5FLA@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Aug22.162555.10343@cti-software.nl>
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In article <1990Aug22.162555.10343@cti-software.nl> pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >Instead a super-root, "//", is created. To access
> >files on a remote system, you access "//sysname/usr/bin...". 

> Does this mean the root directory has an entry with a slash
> in its name?

No, namei recognises the string "//" as a special case (as it does
for "/" now) and looks up the system name in an internal table. If
it doesn't find it, it strips the leading slash and tries again.
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