RFS vs. NFS

Eduardo Krell ekrell at hector.UUCP
Sun Mar 27 08:57:20 AEST 1988


In article <7765 at apple.Apple.Com> jk at apple.UUCP (John Kullmann) writes:
>The key difference between NFS and RFS is:
>	Everyone wants and uses NFS and no one wants or uses RFS.

I thought the key difference was that RFS maintains true Unix
semantics when the file is remote. NFS does not (locks, for
instance).
    
    Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

    UUCP: {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ulysses!ekrell		ARPA: ekrell at ulysses.att.com



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