[Info-vax] NFS, indexed files and LDdriver

[Jouk Jansen]

JF Mezei wrote:
> I currently have a pair of IDE 30 gig drive on the alpha which serves
> via MSCP the Vax (and the alpha, of course).
> 
> I am looking at options to let the VAX continue to run after the Alpha
> has been removed.
> 
> I take it that indexed files cannot reside on an NFS served disk ? (for
> instance, move all ODS directories to the unix file system, and then
> have VAX VMS access them via NFS).
> 
> Can LDdriver create an LD: device that is mapped to a container file
> served via NFS ?  If so, I could create container images of the 2 30 gig
> drives on OS-X and then the VAX could create LD drives that were mapped
> to those NFS-accessed container files.
> 
> 
Yes I did it, but... the bottleneck is the NFS client of VMS. Presently 
  most (all??) are still version 2 which cannot handle (cotainer)-files 
larger than 4GB.

                Jouk