[794] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
AFS RPC protocol?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hugh Fisher)
Thu May 21 05:01:36 1992
From: Hugh Fisher <hugh@rschp1.anu.edu.au>
To: info-afs@transarc.com
Date: Thu, 21 May 92 17:53:04 EST
I've been ferretting around in your anonymous FTP area
for information about the AFS and discovered in one of
these files that you had an information mail address.
My apologies for not using it first.
I'm thinking about and doing some preliminary planning
for a Masters project to start next year. The project
I have in mind involves passing a lot of information
reliably and with reasonable speed among many people,
processes, and machines on LANs, with scaling to WANs
if possible. I would like to be able to assume the RPC/
communications stuff already works - my speciality is
application design, not protocols. Everything I've read
about the Andrew File System suggests that you people
have already worked out how to distribute information,
cache it locally, handle locking and updates, etc.
My questions are therefore: could the AFS RPC protocol
be used for other applications, much like Sun RPC? How
about the server/client location and token passing?
And, this being a student project: are the specs for
these protocols in the public domain or usable for
small amounts of money?
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Hugh Fisher
Hugh.Fisher@anu.edu.au
