13 Aug
2025
13 Aug
'25
3:05 a.m.
On Tue, 12 Aug 2025, Larry McVoy wrote:
I think Sun people love it, because the Sun
implementation just worked,
the rest of the world mostly hates it. I learned this when I left Sun
and got to use other NFS implementations, they sucked.
I can vouch for Sun's NFS working well, and others' not so much (zeroed
blocks returned etc)...
We supported BitKeeper on NFS which meant we had to do
lock files on NFS
on all platforms. Believe me when I say I know that other NFS
implementations were a mess. Read all the drama here:
I'm impressed by the workarounds for obscure kernel bugs :-)
-- Dave