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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: RFS is by far better that NFS!
Summary: tapes
Message-ID: <1989Dec20.171413.18170@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 20 Dec 89 17:14:13 GMT
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In article <1989Dec19.195321.3431@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@mcs.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:

>>but with NFS, root exclusion happens by default.  root is mapped to uid -2 

>With 386/ix NFS, none of this is possible -- unless I want to write a tape
>server.  Ugh.

If you have rsh it should be simple enough to do tapes over the net.  You
might want to look at afio's special handling of host:device.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us