Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 11/03/84 (WLS Mods); site astrovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!wls From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) Newsgroups: net.lan Subject: Re: Transparent Remote File Access Systems: Short Summary Message-ID: <558@astrovax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 16:30:11 EST Article-I.D.: astrovax.558 Posted: Thu Mar 7 16:30:11 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 05:18:35 EST References: <257@oblio.UUCP> <54@daisy.UUCP> <865@ariel.UUCP> Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics Lines: 17 > I don't think that this represents a very transparent filesharing > system at all. In the scenario: > /usr/david > on host: david is addressed as: > /net/david/usr/david > The user has to know not only that the fiel is remote but also > what host it is on. What if this were netnews on a remote > system that you were reading to save block on the local system. > What happens when the administrator needs to move news? Do > all the interface programs have to be recompiled? > Joseph L. Wood, III Thats where 4.2 BSD-style symbolic links are beautiful. Just make the local /usr/spool/news a symbolic link to /net/david/usr/spool/news -- Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics {allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls