Tell me what you need, where are you having problems. I will try to help
you.
Regards,
Pedro Rodrigues
>
> Hi all.
>
> First, let me say that I'm impressed with all the good work that you
> are doing. However, there are some parts where Linux is not
> "at the same level" as the rest of the kernel (and it's competitors).
>
> Althrough it's history Linux has been known for it's poor NFS support.
> Many of us has had hopes that this would be fixed in 2.2, but no. Now
> our hopes are set for 2.4, but the recent talk about a feature-freeze
> and hurrying a new kernel out have started a rumour that nfs in 2.4
> will remain unchanged.
>
> Today, Linux is excellent for anything that doesn't require nfs. That
> is www-servers, news-servers, samba-servers and all sorts of
> standalone-machines. You can use nfs, but only between Linux-machines
> if you don't want to trigger obscure bugs or have bad performance.
>
> Lots of environments rely on nfs for file-sharing, and today you often
> have to fight when you're going to use Linux as an nfs-client
> (especially with 2.2 which seems to have triggered various bugs in
> nfs-servers). You can almost forget to use Linux as an nfs-server for
> non-Linux machines though.
>
> I, and many many others, believe that if Linux are going to get
> accepted (and used) in such environments then it has to have a working
> nfs-support, both client and server. If the feature-freeze means no
> working nfs3 I hardly recommend you all to reconsider this. A (IMHO)
> working solution would be to do the feature-freeze, but push the
> development of the nfs-part into working state and into the kernel.
>
> It would definately be a win for Linux, since it's one of the weak
> points in the Linux-kernel (the weakest IMO). I could probably come up
> with many more reasons, but the best I can think of is that it would
> lead to far less frustrated sysadmins :-)
>
> If there is a need to test nfs-interoperability with AIX, Irix or
> Solaris feel free to drop me an email. Linux can talk to them, but
> Linux seems to trigger various bugs in AIX (and reportedly Irix, but
> we're not using any Irix nfs-server at the moment).
>
>
> If you are replying to this mail, please CC me since I'm not a
> subscriber of linux-kernel.
>
>
> /Nikke - SysAdmin at the Academic Computer Club, Umeå University, Sweden
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