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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Distributed Filesystems vs. NNTP at large sites.
Message-ID: <6308@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 26 Sep 89 11:28:06 GMT
References: <17735@looking.on.ca> <1989Sep20.060201.4473@rpi.edu> <45814@bbn.COM> 
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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Actually, I said:
> Why aren't more people using remote file systems of one sort or another?    

In article , pleasant@porthos.rutgers.edu (Mel Pleasant) writes:
> This question really surprises me.  B news has had the code in it
> since patch 14 to provide this sort of configuration.

Hmmm. We've been doing it since patch 13.

The NNTP client stuff? I never bothered to look at it. Our network is not based
on TCP/IP. It's pretty close to OSI, actually. Anyway, that code obviously
would not work in our environment. I just set up localize.sh to get everything
pointing to files on the newsserver, and OpenNET took care of the rest. No
problems at all with clients writing right into //xds13/usr/lib/news.
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