13 Aug
2025
13 Aug
'25
8:24 p.m.
From my own experience, no real depth of knowledge here... I use NFS
for my home shares. Painless with automount and nfsv4. I can't speak to
widespread use in enterprise, but as a "casual" nfs user, it gets the
job done nicely. I share a folder called ark from one of my servers and
mount it on all of my machines. The ark lives on a mirrored zpool that
is frequently snapshotted to another mirrored zpool on another server
(I'm less of a zfs casual user, but that's an aside). I haven't lost a
bit this way in the couple of years since I stood up the nfs share and I
offloaded about 1TB of stuff I like to have on hand to the server. I
tried Samba, ick, seems like windowism to me and I tried some NAS stuff,
but nfs was fastest and simplest. I haven't really found anything better
that works as painlessly as nfs, though I do look into alternatives
every so often.
What else to try?
Thanks,
Will
On 8/13/25 11:43 AM, Tom Lyon wrote:
BTW, my own opinions abut NFS can be seen in my
"NFS Must Die!" talk
here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVF_djcccKc&ab_channel=TomLyon
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVF_djcccKc&ab_channel=TomLyon>
Not that NFS *was* bad - but it *is* bad (for non-casual use).
Like the C language, it was great for its time. Not so much anymore.
On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM Peter Weinberger (温博格) via TUHS
<tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
It was a research proof-of-princple. (i.e.. partly principled and
partly really hacky. My list of its issues was pretty long.)
(If A mounted B's file system somewhere, and B mounted A's, then the
directory tree was infinite. That's mathematics, not a bug.)
On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
worked well
On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 10:18:34AM -0400, Dan Cross wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 10:00???AM Douglas McIlroy
> <douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> > I was always sorry that Peter Weinberger's RFS never made it
outside
> > Bell Labs. It allowed networking
between separately administered
> > systems by mapping UIDs.
>
> I believe it did? If I recall correctly, it was available
with System
V, though
perhaps I am misremembering.
Sunos had it, my office mate ported it. I was unimpressed, it
between the same archs but was riddled with byte
order problems and
ioctl calls that were not portable.