[tech] NFS mounts

[Simon Fryer]

Bingle

> A while ago Grahame Bowland tapped:

> 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 [...]?
> > > 
> > 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.

Ok, you have got the first one. Things die when it goes away. 

I have never been particularly fond of the whole UID/GID sharing kind of 
arrangement. This means that unless you are prepared to do a lot of work, 
you will need to be running NIS. NIS introduces a whole series of new and
exciting crap to deal with. 

Both NFS and NIS are an evil hack to keep up with the rest of the workstation 
industry that already had better systems. Ever sen your startup script on
the E&EE dept unix boxen?

It makes M$ networking seem almost well implimented. 

The implimentations varyso it is not as compatable as well, it could be. 

Byte ordering.... Big endian and little endian on rpc. 


I am sure that there are more reasons as well but I will need more caffine 
before thinking about them. 

See Ya
Simon

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