Re: management capabilities for NFSv4

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From: Dave Hitz (hitz@netapp.com)
Date: 09/30/98-06:59:53 PM Z 

From: hitz@netapp.com (Dave Hitz)
Message-Id: <199809302359.QAA21584@cranford.netapp.com>
Subject: Re: management capabilities for NFSv4
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:59:53 -0700 (PDT)

> I'd be loathe to burden the NFS v4 protocol with specific dependencies
> on other protocols.  NFS v4 may be used in lots of strange and wonderful
> ways that do not conform to a specific profile, yet are perfectly valid
> uses of the protocol, i.e. there might be several "NFS Reference Profiles"
> that serve different needs, e.g. portable devices, storage networks, etc.

I agree strongly.

NFS has been used in all sorts of interesting ways.  For instance,
compact devices used NFS in their tiny CD-ROM appliance that would
convert a CD jukebox from a local attach device into a network attach
device.  For an application like this, printer services are crazy, and
even things like LDAP and NIS may not be needed.

But at the same time, it definitely does make sense to specify that
bundle of related services that are necessary to make a more
traditional read/write storage server useful.

Dave

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