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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: NFS vs RFS
Message-ID: <7387@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 6 Jan 89 21:02:14 GMT
References: <9018@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <9018@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> citron@cit-vax.UUCP (Mark C. Citron) writes:
>Could anyone summarize the differences between NSF and RFS networking
>systems? What are the advantages/disadvantages to each?

I've only used RFS but as I understand things RFS preserves the unix
semantics to a greater extent than NFS.
For example, you can access remote devices by mounting the directory
that contains them (likely to work only on similar machines), and
you can do IPC between machines without special programming by creating a
FIFO in a mounted directory.  The standard sysV file/record locking
procedures are supposed to work on remote files.  RFS allows uid/gid mapping
per host.

NFS is available for systems other than unix.

Les Mikesell