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From: darren@shapec.mdcbbs.com ((Darren Bolland))
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: NFS Details/References Requested
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.191145.1@shapec.mdcbbs.com>
Date: 1 Mar 91 19:11:45 GMT
Organization: Shape Data Ltd. (McDonnell Douglas M&E, Cambridge UK)
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            Needed: NFS Details, Reports, References, Diagrams?

  I'm currently doing some work with NFS. I would like to find out as much 
about NFS as possible, to make sure that my investigation is complete.

  I spoke to my local SUN Rep to see if they had anything that might help. All
they could suggest was the Sun Network Programming Manuals, and a single
White Paper that they had on Performance. Whilst these are quite useful, I 
would like far more detail.

  Don't SUN have any complete references available - They invented NFS didn't 
they?

  What I'm trying to do is to visualise the whole process that goes on in
the NFS - i.e Interaction with the various Daemons (nfsd, biod), RPC Calls,
Kernel Calls etc..(Diagrams would be nice!) What happens when you do an 'ls'
on a NFS File System - I have a Network Sniffer that I can use to get some
of this info. I'm also interested in File Locking, which we would like to use, 
although I understand this has effects on Performance/Caching.

  I've heard people talk about the NFS State Machine Model, and would be
interested in Details

  Basically I would like pointers/references to *ANY* Documentation available,
and if you have any Papers Online I would be very grateful for them.

  If there are details on ANON FTP Sites - I don't have access to Internet, so
if they are on Mail Servers all the better.

  Hope this Newsgroup can help

Regards,
Darren
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