Re-Reading Tanenbaum’s Critique of RPC 30 Years Later

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  • nfs-ganesha

    NFS-Ganesha is an NFSv3,v4,v4.1 fileserver that runs in user mode on most UNIX/Linux systems

  • > NFS used to use XDR and some variant of RPC to work but I am not sure it does any more.

    Yep, still does [1]. Even 4.1 and 4.2 (the most modern variants of NFS) all start with .x files and XDR encoding. The ancient names codified by Sun still exist and still work (and the tooling still works for introspection as a nice bonus).

    [1] https://github.com/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha/tree/next/src/Pro...

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