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SubjectRe: Linux DCE/DFS

AFS is available FYI

On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, David Arnold wrote:

> -->"Laszlo" == Laszlo Vecsey <master@micro.internexus.net> writes:
>
> Laszlo> Any hopes of having a distributed file system added to Linux
> Laszlo> any time soon? Are there legal reasons why DCE/DFS can't be
> Laszlo> implemented now (for free) in the kernel, are there
> Laszlo> specifications available anywhere?
>
> DCE is composed of many parts. The RPC component has been made freely
> available, and is in beta now for Linux.
>
> The security, naming and file services are not freely available.
> They are large and quite complex - I wouldn't attempt to reimplement
> them from the (scant) specs.
>
>
> Wrt. distributed file systems, since both AFS and DFS are unavailable,
> perhaps the Sprite file system is worth a look? i think it was quite
> reasonable? or perhaps there's source for Coda about?
>
> d
>
>
>


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