RFS vs. NFS

[Peter da Silva]

For a third choice, Intel's OpenNET software runs on top of an OSI protocol
stack, so you can kiss off TCP/IP, but they do provide support for DOS FS
access. In addition, it's extremely easy to maintain and runs well on an
ether shared with TCP/IP. It includes a concept known as "redirects", which
allow many of the niceties of symbolic links, and you don't have to play
games with remote mounts. Instead a super-root, "//", is created. To access
files on a remote system, you access "//sysname/usr/bin...". You can use
redirects if you want to slide these into your own file system to emulate
remote mounts (say, for /usr/spool/news... though we prefer to access
//xds13/usr/spool/news remotely). Named pipes and all that jazz work fine.
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