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From: alistair@microsoft.UUCP (Alistair BANKS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Using IFS to implement an NFS client for OS/2
Keywords: OS/2 NFS IFS client
Message-ID: <10194@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 90 19:03:16 GMT
References: <1990Jan8.044311.1912@larouch.uucp>
Reply-To: alistair@microsoft.UUCP (Alistair BANKS)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1990Jan8.044311.1912@larouch.uucp> yozzo@larouch.UUCP (Ralph Yozzo) writes:
>What are people's thoughts about using the IFS interface to 
>implement an NFS client for OS/2?
>
>| Ralph E. Yozzo                     |                                       |

The installable file system interface is THE interface for network
redirectors (and any arbitrary file system) under os/2 1.2 and
beyond and is therefore the correct interface for an NFS client.

I would add that the IFS specification is not published in the 1.2
toolkit, but will likely be with later versions of the device driver kit.
It is the interface to which the High Performance File System (HPFS)
and LanMan are written and will be used to support any remote
or non-FAT file system.

The work is obviously non-trivial.

I would encourage people to get this work done and would be interested
to hear from people who have prior experience implementing NFS clients
and who have a serious interest in doing this work for OS/2.

Of course, this work would best be done by someone who has a major
interst in NFS, such as Sun - If this is important to you I might
suggest some lobbying in that direction to let Sun know that a large
number of people would like this product.


Alistair Banks
OS/2 Group
Microsoft