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.
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>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
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