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From: craig@cutmcvax.OZ (Craig Farrell)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc
Subject: NFS question - help
Message-ID: <87@cutmcvax.OZ>
Date: 3 Apr 89 10:46:53 GMT
Reply-To: craig@cutmcvax.oz (Craig Farrell)
Organization: Curtin University of Technology, Maths & Comp Sc
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Dear Networld,
	I have a simple question that I hope someone can give me a
logical answer to!  Why can't NFS support access for remote 
devices? I don't see why it would be that different to accessing 
a remote ordinary file, after all the server's open, close, read and 
write calls are still used by the NFS Protocol server to supply the info 
for the remote client so why should the server care if it is getting information
from a device or from a file it just gets the info and per usual (via the Unix
system calls) and passes it on to the NFS protocol server who answers the 
request from the client. I don't see why allowing access to remote devices
would impact upon the statelessness of NFS either.


					Thanx for any help I have obviously
					missed something can you please help.

					Craig Farrell 

Please feel free to mail your reply to me as I may post this to several
news groups and I see no reason for my ignorance should fill up lots
newsgroups with flames etc. about how dumb I am and how obvious the reason 
is.



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From: Craig Farrell
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