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- Subject: Re: VMS vs Unix
- Message-ID: <17667358@zl2tnm.gen.nz>
- From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
- Date: 24 Dec 92 01:51:55 GMT
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- davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec23.015329.8249@brt.deakin.edu.au>, dougcc@brt.deakin.edu.au (Douglas Miller) writes:
- > | no, no, take your pick of VMScluster, DNS, NFS, DECnet/OSI, TCP/IP
- >
- > I tried to stay out, but VMS isn't even transparent across it's local
- > devices. A name like
- >
- > joesvax::a$physical_disk$name_here_like_dra0:[dir.dir.dir]filename
- >
- > may work from anywhere on the net, but you need to know the node name,
- > physical device name, and lots of syntax with variable numbers of
- > colons, and [names] as well.
-
- That's one case, ie a DECnet file access. The exact unix equivalent of
-
- $ cmd joesvax::a$physical_disk$name_here_like_dra0:[dir.dir.dir]filename
-
- % rcp joesvax:/some-root/some-dir/filename localfile
- % cmd localfle
- % rm localfile
-
- Now, which do _you_ prefer? The unix approach requires local storage.
- DECnet file access doesn't. (Sure, a lot of cases can be dealt with by
- piping, but it's not the same.)
-
- File sharing via DFS, NFS or clustering is genuinely transparent. (NFS
- has some gotchas if the server is a unix box, but only because there aren't
- any useful features in the unix filesystem. 8-)
-
- So what's your point?
-
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