[tech] NFS mounts

[Ian McKellar]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 08:47:59AM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 09:17:32AM +0800, Ian McKellar wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 12:15:16AM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> > > 
> > > Any ideas why NFS doesn't work over a slow (modem) link?
> > > 
> > 1) Its crap
> 
> I've heard that but never understood why. I know Linux seems to die horribly 
> if anything goes wrong with an NFS mount.

This is the correct UNIX behaviour. FreeBSD breaks it in stupid ways.
> 
> > 2) Its probably partly blocked at a firewall (were you dialed up to UWA or
> > the borg?).
> 
> The borg :)

I believe UWA blocks RPC and hence NFS at the border.

Ian