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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!acara.snsnet.net!polo.iquest.com!dkelly.iquest.com!user From: dkelly@iquest.com (David Kelly) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD or NetBSD Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 22:03:57 -0600 Organization: N4HHE Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <dkelly-1412952203570001@dkelly.iquest.com> References: <4ag00h$ckk_001@martis-d221.sierra.net> <8791kiycq6.fsf@interbev.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.177.193.231 > > The Linux (Swansea) implementation of NFS is *tiny* compared to BSD's, and > > according to some reports, works better and more reliably besides. > > Only on backwards day. Trust me, I know. I have used both FreeBSD > and Linux NFS implementations, and FreeBSD embarrasses Linux in that > area. About a year ago it took me an hour or two to figure out how to get enough Linux NFS working to mount a remote FS. I am *not* a Unix or networking newbie. Yet I never knew exactly what I did to make Linux NFS work. Then One Day I thought to try it with FreeBSD. Read the man pages, the INFO stuff, the FAQs, and found practically no mention of how to do it. So on a lark I tried, mkdir /disk9 mount sgiworkstation:/disk9 /disk9 And by golly! It worked. Later in FreeBSD 2.0.5R I noticed some options for NFS in /etc/sysconfig. Don't have to start NFS daemons to make NFS work but you can get better performance. I like NFS in the kernel. -- David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@iquest.com =========================================================== To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas Edison