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From: stan@cs.uiuc.edu (Seemong Tan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: SOSS
Keywords: SOSS NFS
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Date: 1 May 91 21:51:46 GMT
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In article <n41g=ta@rpi.edu>, barryf@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Barry B. Floyd) writes:
|> I have seen SOSS mentioned with respect to NFS. What does SOSS stand for
|> (save our sorry ship?)? What does it do, if anything? Why is it related
|> to NFS?

First, there was SOS, Stan's Own Server, which I wrote while at Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory.  It is a NFS server for the IBM PC, so you can
export the DOS box's drives as NFS filesystems.  Geoff Arnold at Sun
gave me lots of help on it.

Now, Rich Braun of Kronos has written SOSS, Son of Stan's Server,
which greatly improves reliability and speed over the original SOS.
It also includes support for Novell products.  Rich Braun is really
quite a studly programmer for having taken SOS and made it into SOSS!

|> If it is software or a standard of some sort, is there and FTP site with
|> it or descriptions thereof (e.g. RFC xxxx) available?

It's available via anonymous ftp from spdcc.com.  And some other sites,
but I can't recall where.

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