From: scott werden (scottw@wrq.com)
Date: 10/01/98-01:57:18 PM Z
Message-ID: <3613D08E.617A6727@wrq.com> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 11:57:18 -0700 From: scott werden <scottw@wrq.com> Subject: Re: management capabilities for NFSv4 hitz@netapp.com wrote: > This does raise an interesting philosophical question. Is NFSv4 for > UNIX or not? We could target it more specifically at PC environments, > This would be a big mistake! Historically NFS has found a nice niche in PC-UNIX file sharing, but that niche is shrinking. SMB networking comes with Windows and is very tightly integrated into the Windows file I/O APIs. The battle for the desktop is being won by Windows, and the needs of the desktop is driving the server market which is prompting many file-server vendors to implement native SMB support into their products. NFS is becoming no longer necessary to share UNIX files to a PC, and the buying decision quite often is reduced to a cost-maintaince issue. Since NFS has to be purchased and installed and SMB is already there on the PC, this is a no-brainer for many IT departments. Paradoxically, other non-UNIX OS's: e.g., OpenVMS, OS/2, MVS, AS400 seem to be growing in their use of NFS to share files out to a PC. --Scott W.
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