[996] in bugtraq
Re: IFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Robinson)
Tue Feb 14 21:48:56 1995
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 17:16:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Paul Robinson <tdarcos@access.digex.net>
To: Dave Williss <dwilliss@tnt.microimages.com>
Cc: bug-traq <bugtraq@fc.net>
In-Reply-To: <9502131501.AA13888@tnt.microimages.com>
On Mon, 13 Feb 1995, Dave Williss wrote:
> What is IFS, anyway? I've seen it, but never anything to tell what it
> is, what it does, what IFS stands for.
Installable File System. One of the uses is to, for example, put a large
disk on one machine and have many others share it so that it is
indistinguishable from a local disk if the link is fast enough.
Let's say that an organization with ten sites across the country wants to
be able to have shared files or set up a database on Unix. By having one
site have the database files, and having the others access it via NFS
instead of by having the database program use TCP/IP for sending inquiry
requests across the net, they don't need to change the applications, just
have them access the specific files on the networked drive, which could
be down the hall or on the other side of the country as long as your
links can handle the traffic and are consistently giving good uptime.
