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From: benson@rlgvax.UUCP (Paul Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tahoe
Subject: Re: NFS for tahoe?
Message-ID: <1188@rlgvax.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 89 19:10:46 GMT
References: <3259@robin.cs.nott.ac.uk>
Reply-To: benson@rlgvax.UUCP (Bob Thralls)
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In article <3259@robin.cs.nott.ac.uk> cczdao@clan.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne) writes:
>i read in a recent issue of "Unix World" that CCI have ported NFS
>to the Power6/32.  does anyone know if this is available, or is it
>still on beta test?
>

Yes, we have had 3.01 with NFS for a while.
Works, great -- lots of mods for improved slave processing (MP)

Also, IP subnetting coming soon, thanx to Dennis Bednar! will still be
4.2bsd though (not 4.3).

>we're currently running System V, supplied by ICL -- does the NFS
>port work with SysV?  and would we be able to obtain it from CCI
>if ICL would or could not supply it?

I believe so.... I don't see why they wouldn't supply it though,
they own CCI!! CCI was purchased by STC of England, and now reports
to ICL, a subsidiary of STC.

>
>while i'm asking about System V, ICL have an annoying habit of taking
>the CCI release and removing useful parts of it, like Melbourne filesystem
>quotas, so it fits in with their other System V products on other machines.

I think they are behind in Office Power releases as well. There is an effort
underway to consolodate the ICL and CCI versions of Office Power into an
international release.

>am i right in thinking that CCI's SysV, in pure, unadulterated form,
>provide quotas?  i'd like to be able to retro-fit them to what we
>get from ICL  (we're just about to move, at last, to "release 2.22",
>which from the notes, says it's SysV.3 compatible).

Well, to be honest... 
I don't know if CCI supports quotas at all.

CCI System V is BSD under the hood, it meets the System V interface definition
in order to be called SystemV, but it's all 4.2bsd.

PS: 4.3bsd is being developed on a tahoe -- trivial, but true.

>
>dave.
>--
>David Osborne
> Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
> (Phone: +44 602 484848 x2064)
> JANET:    d.osborne@uk.ac.nott.clan

Bob Thralls