Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!porthos.rutgers.edu!pleasant From: pleasant@porthos.rutgers.edu (Mel Pleasant) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Distributed Filesystems vs. NNTP at large sites. Message-ID:Date: 25 Sep 89 19:42:20 GMT References: <17735@looking.on.ca> <1989Sep20.060201.4473@rpi.edu> <45814@bbn.COM> <155@ora.ora.com> <6270@ficc.uu.net> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 14 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. B news has had the code in it since patch 14 to provide this sort of configuration. Note that the code has only been tested with nntp and NFS - but it is known to work. Client systems read the news directly through remote file access (NFS). Posting is done through nntpxmit. The client never writes into either /usr/spool/news nor /usr/lib/news. -- Mel Pleasant {backbone}!rutgers!pleasant pleasant@rutgers.edu mpleasant@zodiac.bitnet