Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter 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 Lines: 19 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. -- Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' "That is not the Usenet tradition, but it's a solidly-entrenched U delusion now." -- brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)