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From: joyco@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Joy Correa)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: NFS for ESIX
Keywords: ESIX, NFS, Sun
Message-ID: <9479@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Date: 20 Sep 90 19:35:59 GMT
References: <27157@usc.edu> <1990Sep18.071534.3162@pegasus.com>
Reply-To: godek@isshi.pegasus.com (Frank Godek)
Organization: Integral Software Engineering
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In article <1990Sep18.071534.3162@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
>>   I'd like to get comments from anybody who's had experience using 
>>ESIX's NFS to link to Suns or other Unix platforms.  I've been running 
>>ESIX Rev C TCP/IP for Telnet and FTP links with Suns here on our ethernet 
>>and it seems to work well.  My next step will be to upgrade to Rev D and get
>>the ESIX NFS package going.  The ultimate goal is to get NFS running on an 
>>ESIX 486 system and try it out as a low cost server for some of our slower 
>>Suns (3/50s and 60s).  Before I dive into this I thought I'd check with the 
>>net to see if anybody has tried this yet, or am I nuts ;)  I'll sum up 
>>to the net if there's enough interest.
>
>It kinda sounds like a bad idea because of the short file names.
>Things would probably get messy when the Suns tried to create files
>greater than 14 character long.
>
>I've been thinking about doing something similar, but figured it would
>have to wait until SVR4 becomes available.
>

We've got ESIX Rev D running with ESIX NFS hooked up to a Sony NEWS workstation
and it seems to be running fine (just installed NFS a couple of days ago).  We
are doing this for a client who will be tight on disk space on his Sony. At any
rate, it feels just like NFS on a SUN (almost).

As for long filenames, since Rev D. comes with a BSD filesystem, it should
be possible (at least in theory) to get long filenames.  In fact, I have
contacted ESIX tech support and they claim that they will be posting a
response to my question to the net.

Frank Godek
Integral Software

e-mail:  godek@isshi.pegasus.com