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From: henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Distributed Filesystems vs. NNTP at large sites.
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Date: 26 Sep 89 18:36:50 GMT
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pleasant@porthos.rutgers.edu (Mel Pleasant) wrote:
->In article wesommer@athena.mit.edu (William Sommerfeld) writes:
->
->> Why aren't more people using remote file systems of one sort or another?
->
->This question really surprises me.
i don't believe this was bill's question (it was someone else's
question).
i also don't believe that we are particularly interested in
NFS-mounting /usr/spool/news on one thousand clients (and yes, the
order of magnitude here is correct).
# Henry Mensch / / E40-379 MIT, Cambridge, MA
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