Remote File Sharing (RFS) - SVR3

[Monte Pickard]

In article <261 at unixprt.UUCP>, monkey at unixprt.UUCP (Monkey Face at unixprt) writes:
> Now that System V, Release 3 has been available for 6 months,....
> ... how about some discussion on RFS.
> 
> Does it work?  How does it compare to NFS?  What transport providers 
> are people using?  Is anyone going to produce a transport provider 
> for re-sale to other computer vendors?  Will RFS or NFS become the
> de-facto standard?

It appears to me that all the vendors that purchase a license to SVR3 get
RFS for free with it, and it is ported to SVR3.  

At a cost of $25,000, plus more for later updates, license fees, and the cost 
of porting it to SVR3, NFS gets prohibitive fast.  

These things may help define the standard.  

Also, NFS does not implement the full UNIX file system symantics, so 
applications do no port as easily (or transparently).  Also, follow
on charges for NFS versions that will (speculative) get it up to the
full file system symantics will probably cost even more.

Monte Pickard - Counterpoint Computers