Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: NFS vs RFS
Message-ID: <817@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 89 17:46:26 GMT
References: <9018@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <7387@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>The standard sysV file/record locking procedures are supposed to
>work on remote files.

The NFS implementations being distributed by Sun include a separate RPC
protocol that allows the standard S5 file/record locking procedures to
work on remote files (except for mandatory locking, but so what?).

>RFS allows uid/gid mapping per host.

I think Cray has made modifications to their NFS implementation to allow
this as well.