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From: hve@cernvax.UUCP (H.v.Eicken)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix using the host OS filesystem?
Message-ID: <963@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 89 07:39:19 GMT
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Reply-To: hve@cernvax.UUCP (H.v.Eicken)
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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At LIP in Lisbon, Portugal, where I am working for one year, we implemented
the MINIX filesystem on top of the VAX VMS filesystem. At the same time we
moved Amoeba, the MINIX RPC system, to the VAX under VMS. Currently we are
busy moving MINIX_ST to a VME based 68030/68882 system which has an Ethernet
interface. At the same time we are using ideas from D. Comers XINU implemen-
tation of a "stateless remote file server" to allow access from the VME based
system via Ethernet to the MINIX file system on the VAX/VMS. What is working?
Well, we can communicate between several VAX/VMS systems using Amoeba. We
can access the MINIX file system on the VAX/VMS using a command interface.
We are surrently testing the remote file server access between VAX/VMS
systems using AMOEBA and the MINIX FS. The port of MINIX_ST to the VME based
system is making progress, but will still take some time.

This whole work is carried out at LIP by five people, most of them part time,
as a project in the frame work of building up a systems programmer group.
This work is supported by CERN by sending me for one year to LIP to build up
such a group, but has no connection with the program of work at CERN at all.

Horst von Eicken, currently at LIP, Av. Elias Garcia 14-1, Lisboa, Portugal