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From: karish@denali.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Integrating Apollo into Sun NFS
Keywords: Apollo DN3000, Sun 4.3BSD + NFS, server, client, integration
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Date: 27 May 88 04:57:34 GMT
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In article <9145@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> jec@iuvax.UUCP (James E. Conley) writes:
>NFS is available for Apollos from Apollo.  It does have some problems
>though.  The major problem we have is that you cannot mount a non-Apollo
>NFS partition and expect everything to work as if it were an Apollo disk.
>The reason for this (I believe) is problems with file types.  Our major
>gripe with this is that we cannot execute programs that are on an NFS
                         ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^
>partition on our VAX.
 ^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^

Are you trying to run VAX binaries on an Apollo?  Are you surprised
that it doesn't work?

As part of a discussion of standards in another newsgroup, an employee of
Apollo (speaking on a personal basis, not as a representative of Apollo)
said that there may be some real incompatibilities between Apollo NFS
and Sun NFS.  He said that Apollo wrote their NFS implementation from
the specifications given in the standard published by Sun, and indicated
that Sun's implementation doesn't match their own standard precisely.

I don't know what problems this caused, or what has been done to solve them.
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