From: Conrad Minshall (conrad@apple.com)
Date: 06/05/98-03:43:36 PM Z
Message-Id: <l03102804b19df6b5416a@[17.202.43.185]> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 13:43:36 -0700 From: Conrad Minshall <conrad@apple.com> Subject: Re: NFS v4 opinions requested At 6:32 PM -0700 5/19/98, Brent Callaghan wrote: >* Do you think the Internet needs a file access protocol ? (Note: FTP is > a file *transfer* protocol) Yes. Three already seem to getting some use over the IP internet: NFS, CIFS/SMB, and AFP (Appletalk Filing Protocol). >* Is NFS a good starting point for this protocol ? "Good" is debatable. Vendor-independance is the big plus for NFS. >* Would you or your company be interested in participating in the > development of NFS v4 as an Internet Standard ? > (You can participate by just contributing to this list, attending IETF >meetings, > evaluating prototypes, or developing prototypes or products that use v4.) Personally I would. And Apple has an interest if the v4 protocol is suitable for use with Apple's "HFS" and "HFS+" filesystems, with UDF, and to a lesser degree with NTFS and the legacy Microsoft filesystems. By "suitable" I mean, for example, that a server with a local UDF filesystem can provide it over v4 to a UDF-savvy client, and that the client will have access to all the UDF features. Features of interest include extended attributes (metadata), multiple file forks (streams in NTFS nomenclature), unicode names, etc. >Your response is important. No response implies no interest. Sorry for the delayed reply. The delay was due to the distractions of hunting kernel bugs, not due to a lack of interest. -- Conrad Minshall mailto:conrad@apple.com If "conrad@apple.com" doesn't work, try using rad@acm.org. Picon viewable at: http://facesaver.usenix.org/faces/h/49/4974.htm
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