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From: sxn%ingersoll@Sun.COM (Stephen X. Nahm)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Server hardware/software query
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Date: 15 May 89 19:40:10 GMT
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In article <3232@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
writes:
>The NFS code in AOS 4.3 is based on Sun's NFS 3.2 OEM package
>for 4.3BSD integrators.  NFS 3.2 is **NOT** the NFS from Sun OS 3.2.
>I don't know of a later version.

Actually, NFSSRC 3.2 *was* based on the SunOS 3.2 implementation of NFS,
however:

    1) The reference port is done to a BSD version of UNIX, so indeed
        it is not totally SunOS code; and
    2) The Portable ONC group offers support for the reference port.
        Licensees who choose to purchase the support receive all bug fixes
        of which we are aware.  Therefore, if the vendor is supported, or
        is using a later 3.2-based release, derived NFS implementations will
        probably contain all bugfixes found in, for example, SunOS 3.5.

Here's a brief history of the Portable ONC releases:

3.2 NFSSRC 3/20/87          Original SunOS 3.2 code ported to 4.2BSD
3.2.1 NFSSRC 7/10/87        Bugfix release; still on 4.2BSD
3.2/4.3 NFSSRC 9/30/87      SunOS 3.2+bugfixes ported to 4.3BSD
4.0 NFSSRC 8/26/88          Original SunOS 4.0 code ported to 4.3BSD

Steve Nahm                              sxn@sun.COM or sun!sxn