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From: KASHTAN@IU.AI.SRI.COM (David L. Kashtan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Wollongong's NFS for VAX/VMS
Message-ID: <568834002.0.KASHTAN@IU.AI.SRI.COM>
Date: 10 Jan 88 17:26:42 GMT
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I am the person who wrote the NFS to which you refer.  It was done as
a demonstration project for SUN to show that NFS service was possible
under VAX/VMS.  It is done using SUN's "reference port" NFS server,
which is a user-level server implementation.  Eunice was used to bring
the server up as quickly as possible and to provide the appropriate
UNIX filesystem semantics.  It has just about 100% correct semantics and
the performance is adequate for "occasional" file access.  It is NOT,
however, fast enough to act as a serious SUN file server.

As a result, I am just finishing up a Kernel-based NFS server
for VAX/VMS (using SUN's kernel-based NFS server) that should have
the requisite performance).  It will be available as part of SRI's
MultiNet Multi-Protocol networking product for VAX/VMS.
David
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