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Benefit of NFS - response to Brad Miller's query
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 14:21:49 EDT
From: buff%pravda@gatech.edu (Richard Billington)
A major benefit of NFS from the Symbolics side is that it allows you
to have full versioning just like a LMFS. This is hacked in as numerc
extentions on the unix end of things. It means that you can use a
unix machine to store your system code, different versions of it,
and patches just like a LMFS. This is NOT possible using IP
This is slightly misleading. It's not the case that versioning is
impossible using TCP-FTP, it's just that the code to do it happens to be
part of the ILA-NFS software. There's nothing inherent in the two
protocols that makes versioning possible in one and impossible in the
other.
barmar