[svlug] Linux seems to suck as an NFS server.

[Dan Bethe]

	I use Linux as NFS clients and servers for filesystems around
100GB.  I posted details to comp.os.linux.networking and
comp.sys.networking, and others related to NFS.  All responses said that
Linux's stable implementation is slow and I can use other OS's that have
had full NFS implementations forever, like Solaris or FreeBSD.  Or that I
could try the experimental 2.1 series Linux kernel. 
	I don't know if a robust, stable kernel driver is destined for
kernel 2.2.
	And as for your SMB problems that required a Windows reboot and
that wouldn't list all contents of the Neighborhood, perhaps upgrading to
the latest kernel and Samba would help.  There is a Lose 95 workaround in
recent kernels.  Linux was refreshing filesystem info too fast, and it
would crash Windows. 
	SMB is such an utterly horrendous pseudo-standard that it
stress-tests architectural limitations in all OS's involved -- both unix
and Microsoft. 
	=/

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           from Dan Bethe (now looking for a home in Silicon Valley!)


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