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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:15354 comp.os.386bsd.misc:2474 comp.unix.unixware:5415 comp.unix.solaris:16509 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.unixware,comp.unix.solaris Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!uel!msohnius From: msohnius@novell.co.uk (Martin Sohnius) Subject: Re: A good NFS server ? Sender: news@novell.co.uk Message-ID: <Cq9Cp8.IEp@novell.co.uk> Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 13:41:32 GMT Distribution: inet References: <CpC9Fq.I2n@acsu.buffalo.edu> <2rcdee$c8@wea.eel.ufl.edu> <Cq1HGz.8w1@hippo.ru.ac.za> <1994May19.115606.11109@uk.ac.swan.pyr> <Cq27xK.9Ix@novell.co.uk> <2rimfs$43t@opine.cs.umass.edu> Organization: Novell Europe X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.unixware,comp.unix.solaris Lines: 38 Craig I. Hagan (hagan@opine.cs.umass.edu) wrote: : Martin Sohnius (msohnius@novell.co.uk) wrote: : > Alan Cox (iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr) wrote: : > : In article <Cq1HGz.8w1@hippo.ru.ac.za> csgr@cs.ru.ac.za writes: : > : >[.. something about Linux and freeBDS...] : > : [.. something else about Linux and something about BSD in general...] : > Hey, you guys, this whole thread is degenerating into a little : > NFS-on-BSD discussion! : the point is to get people talking about what is a good nfs : server. since linux isn't the best, people who need the : best now should be aware of their options. people developing : for linux should know where to look for implementation ideas. : If i remember right, *BSD got a lot of nifty ideas : from linux already (and vice versa), isn't that the point : of free software and competition (even if it is friendly)? : I like having multiple free os's for the pc. it allows : [ .. etc...] The problem I was addressing is that this stuff is being CROSSPOSTED to comp.unix.unixware. Now, UnixWare is most definitely NOT a free operating system, and therefore has about the best NFS support imaginable. :-) (I think it originates from Sun, through the old AT&T + Sun agreement.) Could you please remove the cross-post to comp.unix.unixware on a thread, once it has nothing to do with it? -- Martin Sohnius Novell Labs Europe | Press one for confusion, press two Bracknell, England | for frustration, and any other number +44-344-724031 | to hear this message again. (My opinions may not be those of Novell!)