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

[Dylan]

On Wednesday 24 July 2002 14:37, tet at accucard.com 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 :)
>
> Can't say I've ever had any real problems with NFS. Performace is
> sufficiently good that I don't see it as a problem. Sure, perhaps
> other NFS implementations or other protocols may be better, but it's
> fast enough for the uses I have for it. It's also very reliable.
>
> By far the biggest problem with NFS, though, is that authentication
> is done on the client side, which means if I have root access to a box
> that's allowed to mount a filesystem, then I can see every file on that
> filesystem. That's not a desirable trait...

Well, since this is a home network, that's not so much of an issue. And 
anyway, you can squash root in the /etc/exports file. 

D

>
> Tet


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