*BSD News Article 31034


Return to BSD News archive

Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:15939 comp.os.386bsd.misc:2499 comp.unix.unixware:5721 comp.unix.solaris:16968
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!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!cf-cm!cybaswan!iiitac
From: iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: A good NFS server ?
Message-ID: <1994May24.104747.7150@uk.ac.swan.pyr>
Organization: Swansea University College
References: <2rimfs$43t@opine.cs.umass.edu> <Cq9Cp8.IEp@novell.co.uk> <hastyCq9M8o.JEz@netcom.com>
Distribution: inet
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 10:47:47 GMT
Lines: 17

In article <hastyCq9M8o.JEz@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>In article <Cq9Cp8.IEp@novell.co.uk> msohnius@novell.co.uk (Martin Sohnius) writes:
>>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.)
>I don't mind to sound hard but isn't your statement a bit arrogant and
>ignorant. Corporate hype serves its purpose inside your company.

Well all I can say to him is open a UDP socket to a UnixWare NFS server,
issue dubious but vaguely valid NFS requests to it and wait for the crash -
same goes for SunOS and most other OS. Linux it just core dumps nfsd 8)

Alan