[Gllug] NFS problem (now this is REALLY p*****g me off!)

John Hearns john.hearns at cern.ch
Thu Jul 25 09:10:23 UTC 2002


On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 20:28, Dylan wrote: 
> On Wednesday 24 July 2002 14:31, Daniel Andersson wrote:
> > as a lot of people have said, nfs under linux sucks, and i tend to agree.
> >
> > tried a lot of "network fs'es" a while ago and my conclusion was that samba
> > was the best on
> > fastest, most reliable and it just worked really well :)
> 
> Any pointers to some others? The idea of using a rev.engineered Windoze system 
> on a purely Linux network rankles just a bit!
AFS is used in these parts. 

But I wouldn't recommend it for a small network - it has a global
namespace. 
(That's not me being sarccy and smarmy - that's me saying that as far as
I gather it is very complicated to set up and administer. And we have
problems with it which require experts to sort out). 




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