NFS server for Smalltalk?

Hans-Martin Mosner hmm at heeg.de
Tue Aug 20 19:09:59 UTC 2002


Stephen Pair wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone ever implemented NFS for Smalltalk?  The reason I ask is that
> now that I'm starting to store files in a BerkeleyDB database, I'd like
> to retain the convenience of having shell access to those files.
> Implementing an NFS server for Squeak seems like the natural way of
> doing that.  Plus it would be really neat!
>
> - Stephen

At Georg Heeg, we implemented SUN RPC a looong time ago, but we never did
an NFS client or server. Not that this info will help you much :-) But be
aware that NFS has become a complex beast over time, and doing it right is
certainly tricky.

Cheers,
Hans-Martin





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