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- Subject: Re: Mounting VAX/VMS on SGI?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.210816.19462@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>
- From: doelz@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz)
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:08:16 GMT
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- In article <102127@netnews.upenn.edu>, weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
- |> Is it possible to mount a VAX NFS server onto SGI without too much of
- |> a mess along the way?
- |> --
- |> -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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- I wouldn't recommend it because of
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- (*) performance on the VMS side might be low
- (*) files on VMS must be in str_LF to be read on UNIX correctly
- (*) security on VMS might require extensive UID mapping
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- We tried it for a while and decided to go separate after getting
- too much trouble in production work.
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