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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>
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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