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From: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;)
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Subject: Re: Using NFS from A/UX 2.0.1
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Date: 29 May 91 10:37:01 GMT
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|> Does anyone have direct experience using A/UX as an NFS client? I'd like
|> to hear about the problems encountered.

Where have you been these last few years?

1. A/UX has always had a complete, standard NFS implementation which allows 
the A/UX machine to be both client and server.

2. It works. At QMW we have always used A/UX with very, very heavy reliance on 
NFS and it hasn't let us down: by heavy reliance I mean that no personal files 
are stored on the local disk of our 100+ student A/UX systems, and that 
everyone's home directory is on some NFS fileserver. We run A/UX on machines 
with 40 Meg disks of which 20 Meg is given over to a Mac partition: this 
leaves only room for the bare minimum of A/UX stuff on the local disk, with 
everything else mounted from NFS fileservers.

3. Recent problems with NFS, showing up mostly with compilations on remote 
servers, were due to generic failings in the NFS standard source code as 
licenced from Sun. The revised A/UX NFS driver fixes this.


These days NFS is just part of the furniture for any and every UNIX box: it's 
only when people don't offer it that you should begin to worry.
--

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