The DFS internals documentation is available from the OSF FTP site
if anyone is interested.  Its actually worth printing out and reading
a few of these - particularly the design documents for the Episode
filesystem, the VFS+ interface to the Unix filesystem, The DFS Token Manager.

	ftp.opengroup.org:/pub/dce122/sup_doc/supp_docs

There may be some things worth studying here w.r.t. to our discussion of
generalized credentials in the kernel, cells, etc.

Get the big tarfile called no_redistrib.tar.gz

This contains a compendium of printable PostScript documents.
The ones of likely interest here are:

no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part09_dfs/acl_spec.ps
no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part09_dfs/backup_database_ispec.ps
no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part09_dfs/backup_tape_ctrl_ispec.ps
no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part09_dfs/credential_dspec.ps
no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part09_dfs/dfstrace.ps
no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part09_dfs/file_exporter_ispec.ps
no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part09_dfs/fileserver_host_ispec.ps
no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part09_dfs/replication_server_ispec.ps
no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part09_dfs/rpc_versioning.ps
no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part09_dfs/token_manager_ispec.ps
no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part09_dfs/update_server_ispec.ps
no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part09_dfs/vfsplus_ispec.ps
no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part10_lfs/
no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part10_lfs/asyncio_dspec.ps
no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part10_lfs/buffer_log_dspec.ps
no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part10_lfs/buffer_log_ispec.ps
no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part10_lfs/directory_ispec.ps
no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part10_lfs/fileset_anode_dspec.ps
no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part10_lfs/perm_data.ps
no_redistrib/tech_suppl/techsupp/part10_lfs/salvage_fspec.ps




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