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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:16127 comp.protocols.nfs:11118 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5338 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!pendragon!fullfeed!daffy!uwvax!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcomsv!calcite!vjs From: vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com (Vernon Schryver) Subject: Re: NFS V3 Alpha release Keywords: NFS Message-ID: <D3C7nn.4A1@calcite.rhyolite.com> Organization: Rhyolite Software Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 20:02:11 GMT References: <3gm938$inb@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca> <3gokf3$9h6@news.duke.edu> Lines: 25 In article <3gokf3$9h6@news.duke.edu> gallatin@hpdemo.isds.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin) writes: >In article <3gm938$inb@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca>, >Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> wrote: >>For any daring soul who is interested, there is an Alpha test release of >>NFS code that includes support for NFS Version 3 and assorted other new >>features up anonymous ftpable from snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca [131.104.48.1] >>in /pub/nfs. > >I'm about to grab this & take a peek. But before doing so, I just >want to say how amazingly impressed I am that this is out there at >all. As far as I know, it's only the second implementation of NVS V3 >out there, the first being in DEC OSF/1 3.0, which came out only 5 >months ago or so. It is impressive. However, I think at least one other major commercial UNIX vendor has been shipping NFS v3 for a little while. >It's quite impressive for FreeBSD to beat almost every major OS >vendor! The U.Guelph NFS code is in a lot of PC UNIX systems, not just FreeBSD. That's not surprising considering its competition in the freeware market. Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com