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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: PD PC-NFS
Message-ID: <5Q7*L9F@b-tech.uucp>
Date: 14 Oct 90 14:48:31 GMT
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>   I've heard the term redirector before and assume you mean routines which
>   intercept OS requests to a drive and hand them over to the NFS routines.
>   If this is what you mean by redirector, couldn't you use some ramdisk software
>   as a starting point?
>
>No. Ramdisk software for PC's tends to operate by supplying PC-DOS

Actually, if you aren't going to have multiple machines accessing the 
files at the same time, yes - it would be much easier to just 
read/write blocks from another machine.  A single file on your server
could be the entire dos file system.  You might have utilities to extract
dos files from it on the unix machine.  The whole thing would be less useful
than NFS, but might have some applications (like making backups of dos
systems easier or saving hard disk costs).


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Jon Zeeff (NIC handle JZ)	 zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us