RFS vs. NFS

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1990Aug22.162555.10343 at cti-software.nl> pim at cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >Instead a super-root, "//", is created. To access
> >files on a remote system, you access "//sysname/usr/bin...". 

> Does this mean the root directory has an entry with a slash
> in its name?

No, namei recognises the string "//" as a special case (as it does
for "/" now) and looks up the system name in an internal table. If
it doesn't find it, it strips the leading slash and tries again.
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