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NFS documentation (was using /dev/urandom)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Edmonds)
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Subject: NFS documentation (was using /dev/urandom)
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From: Brian Edmonds <brian@gweep.bc.ca>
Date: 24 May 2000 11:28:09 -0700
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Brian Bartholomew <bb@wv.com> writes:
> > I've always wondered why there weren't more cool NFS hacks
> My opinion, having tinkered with a user-level NFS filesystem once upon
> a time: because the NFS protocol is so aggressively undocumented.

But it would only take one person who went through the pain of figuring
it out, as apparently you and Matt at least have, to document it and
then it would be open for all. :)

Brian.

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