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- X-RFC822-From: adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
- From: adelman@TGV.COM
- Subject: Re: NFS VMS client as file server?
- Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
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- > We have a group of Ultrix workstations and another vaxclustered group of
- > vms workstations. I am wondering if it is possible for one node in the
- > vaxcluster to nfsmount a filestructure that sits on Ultrix machine and then
- > because that vaxcluster node is a disk server, serve the file structure to
- > the rest of the vaxcluster (local area) without running NFS clients on every
- > other node in the vaxcluster.
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- No, it isn't. VAXcluster disk service (MSCP) serves disks at the
- raw block level, a level not capable of being emulated by the NFS
- Client. The lowest level available over NFS is the file level.
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- Ken
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