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From: crgabb@sdrc.UUCP (Rob Gabbard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Apollo's NFS !!
Summary: Lets get this straight
Message-ID: <309@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 88 19:08:04 GMT
References: <3c80c931.4653@apollo.uucp> <292@sdrc.UUCP> <3c9567ba.d858@apollo.uucp>
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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In article <3c9567ba.d858@apollo.uucp>, heinzl_c@apollo.UUCP (Carl Heinzl - Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA) writes:

> would) and runs it from there.  Don't forget exactly what we're discussing 
> here either.  Do you actually want to try and run a binary on an Apollo that 
> lives on a SUN, sorry - it just won't work.  Try running a VAX binary on your 
> SUN and see what results you get there.  
> 
> >
> >   I feel DOMAIN is a much better remote file system implementation than NFS
> >but it's not very heterogeneous.  Apollo needs to address this NFS problem.
> 
> Now then, in light of the discussion above, exactly what *NFS* problem are you
> talking about?

I simply want to store Apollo executables on an NFS-mounted disk and have an
Apollo execute them from that disk just as if they were on a local disk or on a
disk accessed via DOMAIN.  

For example, if disk space is low on the Apollo ring, I have nowhere to turn.  
If disk space is low on the Suns or HPs or any other NFS-running UNIX box I can 
turn to another NFS-server machine, including VAX/VMS and use some space there.
Sure, I can store non-executables there, but why restrict the users in such a 
way ?  It should be transparent to them.


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