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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
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Message-ID: <dkelly-1412952203570001@dkelly.iquest.com>
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> > 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
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