Remote File Sharing (RFS) - SVR3

[Nathaniel Mishkin]

In article <43052 at beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> mo at beno.CSS.GOV.UUCP (Mike O'Dell) writes:
>
>Sorry guys, RFS is dead meat.  Until you have managed a large collection
>of machines, you do not understand the importance of stateless servers,
>filesystem semantics be damned (in point of fact, they aren't damaged
>very much at all, much hoopla to the contrary).

This is an interesting (and probably correct) argument.  But it's not
clear that people will understand or act upon it.  For example, I could
state:

    Until you have managed a network of 100+ machines, you do not
    understand the importance of not having to explicitly mount a file
    system before you can access it.

This argument has not always had the effect I might have wished :-)

                    -- Nat Mishkin
                       Apollo Computer Inc.
                       apollo!mishkin