[66189] in Cypherpunks
Re: Internet File System?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rabid Wombat)
Mon Sep 23 02:03:34 1996
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 00:41:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
To: Scottauge@aol.com
Cc: johnbr@atl.mindspring.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <960922232858_108284943@emout01.mail.aol.com>
On Sun, 22 Sep 1996 Scottauge@aol.com wrote:
> There is something in the UNIX world called NFS (network file system). It is
> based on TCP/IP sockets.
>
> I do not know if you know anything about UNIX, but the file system used does
> not have logical drives (like a: or b: etc), just one huge tree that can span
> across many harddrives on many computers, thus making them all look like one.
> NFS helps to connect the other computer's file systems to the network tree.
>
> I think it is pretty cool...
Yeah, real secure too. ;) ;) ;)
- r.w.
