Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!uunet!munnari!mulga!andrew From: andrew@mulga.oz (Andrew Worsley) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: proposal for remote fileserver to access unix files in minix Message-ID: <2082@mulga.oz> Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 21:12:38 EDT Article-I.D.: mulga.2082 Posted: Tue Jul 7 21:12:38 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 06:29:19 EDT References: <3421@ihlpg.ATT.COM> Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia Lines: 32 in article <3421@ihlpg.ATT.COM>, jchvr@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Hartong) says: > > Lets assume for now that via the COM1 port of our PC, the machine is > hooked up to a modem and logged into a standard Unix system. Would it > not be nice to have access via this small line to ALL files on the Unix system > (eg. to consider Unix as a remote file server for Minx). If we could make > this work then we could use the "host" as backup and as a very large (but slow) > disk! > > H.F. van Rietschote Douglas Comer has written a book "XINU II : Networking " in which he gives some code for a remote fileserver for his XINU network. From memory it looked not to hard to put in other operating systems (just the file serving part). It also has a good discussion of the advantages of stateless fileservers. I don't think a serial line is fast enough for fileserving, you need something like an ethernet. TCP/IP is available (source code and all) as PC/IP for the PC and there are several suitable boards on the market about (Aus) $1000+. This would make a suitable basis for a fileserver, anyone got the sources to NFS :-) We are looking at putting the PC/IP software into minix, possible as yet another process, and I believe some of the authors of PC/IP have already mentioned an interest in the area. These are just ideas at the moment, no one has anytime to do any of this interesting work here. But it is an interesting idea, fileserving the PCs, the poor mans Suns :-) Andrew W.