RFS is by far better that NFS!
dale chayes
dale at lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu
Mon Dec 18 10:51:23 AEST 1989
In article <218 at inpnms.UUCP>, logan at inpnms.UUCP (Jim Logan) writes:
[ Several questions about NFS performance vs RFS deleted ]
> doesn't make much sense to have one person responsible for an
> entire network of 386's. He would have to be responsible for
> changing the mode of files, killing processes, etc. No one
> around here wants grunt work like this.
On the issue of network maintenance:
Before you decide that you want more than a small group
of well organized, professional maintainers of networks mucking with
a bunch of (cross)mounted file systems, consider the consequences of
things like:
Every local super user getting to decide what the access modes
of files should be? (They will never agree!)
When its the right time to update versions of public executables
like operating systems, mailers, and compilers.
It takes a different mind-set to maintain a network than it does to
keep a single independent node running. Especially when you have users
who _expect_ the network to run properly. For instance:
Back in the bad(?) old days, even the most naive user who walked
into the computer room and found racks open and test equipment all over
the place understood that things weren't normal. Today, they just sit
down at their tube, poke a key and pick up the phone when they don't
get the response they expect. (Even when the news from yesterday
told them the system would be down.)
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Dale Chayes Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University
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