Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!princeton!puvax2!D0430@PUCC.BITNET From: D0430@PUCC.BITNET (Paul Lansky) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: NFS, RFS and the meaning of life Message-ID: <1526@PUCC.BITNET> Date: Thu, 8-Jan-87 21:02:07 EST Article-I.D.: PUCC.1526 Posted: Thu Jan 8 21:02:07 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Jan-87 02:44:51 EST References: <2225@brl-adm.ARPA> Reply-To: D0430@PUCC.BITNET Organization: Princeton University Computing Center, Princeton, New Jersey Lines: 18 Disclaimer: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article In article <2225@brl-adm.ARPA>, bzs@bu-cs.bu.EDU (Barry Shein) writes: > >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. We are running it on a pair of UvaxIIs, under Ultrix1.1. It took some hacking to get up, but it has been wonderful. It is quite transparent and we make heavy use of symbolic links with it. When one machine goes down linked directories simply appear as symbolic links to junk, but everything else is fine. Overhead seems to be minimal. Most users are quite unaware of the machine on which many files they use. I have no experience with NFS, but expect to use it since it will probably be easier to upgrade with it than with RFS.