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From: gwf@sapphire.bellcore.com (George W. Fleming)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Translucent File Service (
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Date: 10 Jan 91 20:29:11 GMT
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Has anyone tried to use the Translucent File System (TFS) on SUN 4.1.1???
There seems to be very little documentation on it:  A few manual pages,
but no description on how to use it at all!!!

Is this a SUN supported service? 

To get it started, it looks like that one has to add an entry in
/etc/services for tfs.  How do you know what port # to use?  Then it looks
like you have to modify /etc/inetd.conf.  Does anyone have something that
works?

I would welcome any comment anyone has in working with TFS.  Does it work?
Does it work well with NFS over a network?  Why aren't there more
documentation on it?

George W. Fleming
gwf@sapphire.bellcore.com