Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: NFS vs RFS
Message-ID: <1988Mar21.225626.1453@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <10370@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 88 22:56:26 GMT

> >... there is no way 
> >for RFS to know the structure of the data to convert it to a canonical form.
> 
> Likewise for the structs passed to ioctl() for various devices.  Thus the
> advantage of RFS being able to access remotely-mounted devices applies
> only to similar machines...

Some uses of remote devices would require ioctls, but some would not.  The
ones that don't would work.  The ones that do will have to wait until
something is done about XDR encoding of ioctls (with all the difficulties
that that will involve...).  It's still a win.