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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
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Subject: Re: NFS Support in NetWare
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Date: 17 Mar 91 20:26:25 GMT
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In article <1991Feb28.175058.16007@novell.com> donp@na.excelan.com (don
provan) writes:
>In article <6638@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:
>>It's not only not the cheapest, it's also quite deficient.  How many Unix
>>people are going to like the filenaming limitations imposed by the DOS
>>filesystem?
>
>Your information is incorrect.  Any legal UNIX file name is legal in
>Novell's NFS; it does *not* limit itself to legal DOS names.

I've only just been pointed at this discussion, this is not a group I normally
read.  I also don't want to fan the flame war, tb@Materna.DE (Torsten Beyer)
has already rebuked most of the more misinformed anti-Unix comments like not
being able to use such a big disk cache, having to keep switching context to
user mode processes etc.  But I do have one serious question.

We've seen the Novell NFS server supports long filenames (256 characters /
component ?) with unlimited character sets (all 8 bits ?), but does it also
support hard and soft links, character and block devices, named pipes, Unix
domain sockets, and such ?

Cheers,

Rob
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