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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
- Subject: Re: Different implementations of NFS? Sun RPC NFS vs. U. of Guelph ?
- Keywords: NFS
- Message-ID: <15546@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:09:26 GMT
- References: <BxwAt4.8xn@nic.umass.edu> <lgk071INNlck@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >In addition, you kinda threw "NFS" and "RPC" together, and
- >I thought I should mention that a freely licensed implementation
- >of RPC source is on-line (cs.rice.edu? others--use archie).
- >I believe this was used in Guelph implementation?
-
- Actually, from what I've seen of the 4.3-reno version of Macklem's
- implementation, the kernel part doesn't use a Sun implementation of RPC;
- it has a hand-rolled version.
-
- User-mode NFS-server services such as the "mount" protocol are
- implemented atop the Sun RPC implementation.
-