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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!hippo.ru.ac.za!ucthpx!oryx!gavan 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 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <2sf8ue$g2m@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> References: <Cq6u20.KFw@hkuxb.hku.hk> <CqH2z7.29E@dit.upm.es> <2s618a$34t@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <2s86fj$cn4@acmex.gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: oryx.mth.uct.ac.za X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] 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