Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!elroy!devvax!parlier From: parlier@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Randy Parlier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: RE Apollo NFS Message-ID: <2305@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Date: 23 Jun 88 01:13:44 GMT Reply-To: parlier@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Randy Parlier) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. Lines: 22 > >I simply want to store Apollo executables on an NFS-mounted disk and have an >Apollo execute them from that disk just as if they were on a local disk or on a >disk accessed via DOMAIN. > >For example, if disk space is low on the Apollo ring, I have nowhere to turn. >If disk space is low on the Suns or HPs or any other NFS-running UNIX box I can >turn to another NFS-server machine, including VAX/VMS and use some space there. >Sure, I can store non-executables there, but why restrict the users in such a >way ? It should be transparent to them. > OF course! That's what NFS is all about. You can do exactly what you want to do with NFS. I have Apollo, Sun, Masscomp, IBM_PC executables stored all over the place on NFS mounted file systems and these execute great. Randy parlier@poe.jpl.nasa.gov ...!cit-vax!elroy!poe!parlier