Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!adm!bzs@bu-cs.bu.EDU From: bzs@bu-cs.bu.EDU (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: NFS, RFS and the meaning of life Message-ID: <2225@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Thu, 8-Jan-87 14:12:54 EST Article-I.D.: brl-adm.2225 Posted: Thu Jan 8 14:12:54 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Jan-87 22:44:12 EST Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 25 Are there people out there actually running RFS who would like to comment on it? Everything said so far makes RFS sound so hypothetical. Particularly outside of AT&T and even more particularly anyone with experience with NFS also although I for one would appreciate anyone's views from a practiced standpoint. Also, re Doug Gwyn's question about "is yp_ a necessary part of NFS?" I don't see why it should be, the Yellow Pages is a way to distribute network (and other) database queries allowing multiple servers and clients layered on RPC. Current implementations of NFS might use YP for these functions but I can't see why gethostbyname() or similar calls couldn't just be done 'the old fashioned way' (grovel through a local and probably out of date and inconsistent /etc/hosts file...) Why such a negative reaction to it Doug? It seems like a needed service, obviously not if you have one machine which is the center of your world (maybe that's how you see your Gould?) but in an environment like ours I'd sure hate to try to keep a few dozen /etc/hosts files et alia up to date (and growing.) Does RFS/SYSVR3 have any way to share network databases? -Barry Shein, Boston University