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From: gavan@oryx.mth.uct.ac.za (Gavan Tredoux)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD?
Date: 31 May 1994 12:01:18 GMT
Organization: University of Cape Town
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Robert Sanders (gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu) wrote:
: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:

: A point I hesitate to bring up is that FreeBSD didn't seem to work with Linux's
: NFS server.  Knowing that no *BSD will admit that it got things wrong, and not
: knowing that Linux's NFS server got it right, all I'll say is that Solaris,
: an MS-DOS client, and Chameleon NFS/32 for NT all worked perfectly with it, as
: did Linux's client.

That was probably because you didn't mount with a 1k blocksize. I NFS
mount from FreeBSD to Linux 24 hrs a day, grinding out compilation
after compilation and I've never had a problem. This seems to be a Linux
peculiarity.

Gavan Tredoux
Mosaic Software
Cape Town