RFS vs. NFS

[Thomas Truscott]

In article <1053 at mcgill-vision.UUCP>, mouse at mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
> 
> > Consider RTI's Freedomnet, which RTI advertises as supporting full
> > UNIX file system semantics.  However, if program foo physically
> > resides on a remote machine, typing foo causes foo to run on the
> > remote machine.
> 
> This is `transparent' if, and only if, foo would also run on the remote
> machine after copying it to some local filesystem.

Yes, as I explained previously, if foo is the wrong binary type
for the machine where it resides then it is copy/executed elsewhere.
We implemented that ("misplaced execution") over three years ago.
Once you have true remote execution this sort of thing
is fairly straightforward.
	Tom Truscott