[TUHS] NFS 40th anniversary event

[Douglas McIlroy]

I was always sorry that Peter Weinberger's RFS never made it outside
Bell Labs. It allowed networking between separately administered
systems by mapping UIDs.

Doug

On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2025, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> > I think Sun people love it, because the Sun implementation just worked,
> > the rest of the world mostly hates it.  I learned this when I left Sun
> > and got to use other NFS implementations, they sucked.
>
> I can vouch for Sun's NFS working well, and others' not so much (zeroed
> blocks returned etc)...
>
> > We supported BitKeeper on NFS which meant we had to do lock files on NFS
> > on all platforms.  Believe me when I say I know that other NFS
> > implementations were a mess.  Read all the drama here:
>
> I'm impressed by the workarounds for obscure kernel bugs :-)
>
> -- Dave