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Subject: Public Domain NFS
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Date: 16 Dec 88 16:41:04 GMT
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I agree that it would be a very useful item. I currently have a non-Sun
implementation of NFS Version 2 mostly written, that is intended to go
in a Berkeley Unix kernel arround a vnode layer. {I am just starting the
plug it into the kernel part, and this will take several months..}
If there is someone out there that is a DOS wizard and keen enough to try
to incorporate it into a freely available TCP/IP package, they are more
than welcome to the code. However, it does look like a bit of an onerous
task for several reasons:

- none of the current freely available packages remain resident and I
  don't know how easy it is to change them to at least share the net
  interface with resident NFS client code?

- I don't know how you catch the DOS BIOS calls on the filesystem?
  { Not being a DOS wiz, my best guess is that you revector the 21H interrupt
   and then filter out the requests on the net disks, but...}

- Once you do all this, you must still write code that converts the BIOS
  calls into corresponding vnode ops to call the client code I have written.
  { Not to mention, port it to a PC C compiler with 16bit ints }

Any Heroes??