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- From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
- Subject: Re: Info about I-Net 225
- References: <oelli.02wp@amioelli.co.at>
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- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 96 19:31:30 EDT
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- In article <oelli.02wp@amioelli.co.at> oelli@amioelli.co.at (Thomas Oellinger) writes:
- > Does I-Net 225 contain an NFS server and if it does, is this server also using
- > such an mapfile or does is store the extra information in the AmigaDOS
- > filesystem which should be posible with the current filesystem release I think.
-
- I-Net 225 includes an NFS server, as an extra cost option.
-
- It still uses a mapfile, and will continue to do so. It is _not_
- possible to completely eliminate a mapfile and have a conformant
- NFS implementation.
-
- We've gone round-and-round on this topic . The Amiga FS simply doesn't
- store sufficient information to "pretend" to be a Unix FS. And when
- we say "Amiga FS" remember that we are talking about public interfaces
- to a myriad different filesystems. OFS != FFS != any CD filesystem.
- The mapfile provides state and consistency on top of the public
- interfaces. It also provides some speed advantage, such that all of
- the "interface" data is in a single place. The only piece of mapfile
- data that could be eliminated is the UID and GID information. And even
- there, we have an incompatibility, since Unix uses type "int" for that,
- and the Amiga FileInfoBlock has a "UWORD".
-
- The I-Net 225 NFSd is much more efficient and stable than the AS225r2
- one; but there are still things that can be done. The mapfile should be
- built on the fly, and dynamically sized, but that isn't done. The next
- time I have a "free" moment, NFSd will get some major alterations.
-
- > It should be no problem to export volumes under Linux and to import these
- > with the Amiga using I-Net 225 but is the opposite also possible, which
- > requires the Amiga to act as a NFS server?
-
- Yep. Sure is.
-
- > I am particularly interested if it
- > is possible to export an CD-ROM drive in the Amiga to Linux and Windows.
-
- Yep. Sure is.
-
- > I have seen from the product information of the I-Net 225 package that it
- > includes lpr and lpd so it should be possible to use a printer which is
- > connected to the Amiga from the PC, is this right?
-
- Yep. Sure is.
- --
- // Michael B. Smith
- \X/ mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us
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