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From: Kemp@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: NFS, RFS, and Andrew Network File Systems
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Date: 16 Apr 89 02:24:52 GMT
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Akhtar Jameel asks for:
  > [...]
  > 5.  Any technical reports or other references comparing NFS
  >     with RFS or other Network filesystems

Try "The Sun Network File System:  Design, Implementation and
Experience" by Russel Sandberg at Sun.  This should be available from
your local Sun sales office, publication number FE146-0/20K, 11/87.  It
contains a comparison of NFS and RFS design philosophies; (basically if
you have all SysV.3 machines, RFS provides full Unix semantics; if you
have a large network or heterogeneous hosts (e.g.  VMS or Mis-DOS or
BSD) NFS is the better choice.  The two systems are not mutually
exclusive though.)

  Dave Kemp <Kemp@dockmaster.ncsc.mil>