RFS vs. NFS

[Bruce G. Barnett]

In article <7533 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
|Funny, I thought the difference was that RFS is NFS done right.

RFS allows access to remote devices, NFS does not.

NFS is stateless. RFS is statefull. This might not seem like much,
but if an RFS disk is mounted on 100 machines, and the server crashes
and reboots, ....... Well, it just gets very messy.

If an NFS server reboots, the clients just waits and then continue on.
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