Subject: Re: NFS benchmarks
To: None <netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 01/24/2000 22:09:28
In message <Pine.NEB.4.21.0001242247050.3398-100000@himring.draga.com>, Jim Wis
e writes:
>This is anecdotal evidence, of course, but the mailing lists (especially
>port-alpha a few months back, and port-next) are _full_ of people having
>trouble with Linux nfs client and server stability and compatibility in
>various forms.  In particular, problems of the sort `I am using <OS> as
>an nfs server and all my wildly heterogeneous clients are fine except
>for my one linux box' or `I was using linux as an nfs server, and all my
>wildly heterogeneout clients had no end of trouble, but when I switched
>to <OS> everything was fine, for various values of OS...

In particular, bsdi-users periodically gets people who are burned because
the Linux NFS stuff says "yeah, I can do V3", but doesn't have any V3 support.

-s