On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:05:36PM +0100, Harald Bjoroy wrote:
> Another question:
> This is on a pmax system. I intend to install either NetBSD or Linux on a 
> PC to support some more disk for this machine using NFS. Someone told me 
> that Linux is not reccomended for this; is there any reason for this, or 
> is it just that one don't want you to mix religions? Could I go for Linux 
> without having any more problems than with NetBSD?

Generally, Linux is not recommended in these cases because its lacks
NFS performance. This is due to the Linux userspace NFS implementation.
I know that there is work going on to improve this, but last time I looked
this was not complete yet (for example, NFSv3 support in the kernel wasn't
complete yet). Perhaps this may have changed - I don't know, but this
was always the reason that Linux was not recommended as an NFS server.


- Frank