Remote File Sharing (RFS) - SVR3

[Mike O'Dell]

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).

Many small Unibox vendors will support RFS since they get it for free
with SVR3, but there is also a good NFS port to SVR3 available, too
(see Lachman associates).

The simple fact is that over 150 different Unix system vendors and
builders have *already* gone with NFS, and MANY of those folks
ship SysV boxes.  Even more importantly, with servers for other operating
systems (DEC and IBM) either available or coming, the arguments are
even more compelling.  Which do you think will sell more computers?
Being able to share files between 3B2's, or between VAXes (VMS&UNIX),IBM 3090's,
PC's, Macintoshes, and a host of Uniboxes??

Rumor has it that AT&T privately admits they will probably be forced to
support NFS because of its commanding lead.

Believe what you wish.  Faith is a terrible thing to waste.

	-Mike O'Dell