On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
And even on Linux machines, NFS has been, well, "functional" is a good
way to describe it. For its primary original purpose, which is serving
home directories or remote mount e.g. binaries in midsize and smaller
workstation LANS, it is adequate and has worked well for us for almost
ten years (not without some pain, mind you, but with no more pain than
anythng else). For the last five or six years even most of the pain has
gone away and things like automounting work most of the time with only
rare hangs or stale mount problems (on highly reliable server hardware
and with a very reliable network).
Youngsters these days.....
I still have painful memories of an environment with too many filesystems
cross mounted between workstations and (at the time big) minicomputers.
All too often someone would shut down a workstation that was serving a
filesystem and everything would crash. Just like dominos.
Like I said, a sordid history.
-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts.
It's what I can remember in time to use.
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