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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
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Posted: Thu Mar  7 16:30:11 1985
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Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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> 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
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