Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!gatech!ut-sally!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Extended file system on UNIX 4.2/4.3 BSD Message-ID: <949@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 17:31:01 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.949 Posted: Fri Dec 20 17:31:01 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Dec-85 01:24:20 EST References: <617@mit-bug.UUCP> <105@sering.mcvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 10 The nice thing about truly transparent remote file systems is that once the set-up work, which varies among implementations, has been done, one can access remote files "the usual way". Therefore, all transparent remote file system methods are interchangeable without breaking applications. You can use whatever is available and change to another approach later. Great stuff! (Since all wizards should already appreciate this, I changed the posting to net.unix.)