> 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).
I guess the whole Sun set of tools was built on RPC: All the yellow pages stuff, automounting your home directory etc. Never really thought about it too hard when I was a Sun administrator back in the 1990s.
If somebody gave me a choice of CORBA or Sun RPC, I'd still pick Sun RPC. CORBA was a nightmare.
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...