[TUHS] Re: RFS (was Re: Re: forgotten versions)

I probably tend too much to the sociological more than technical in this, but I do know we were very prejudiced against RFS. Very. We just didn't like it. Probably? This was some kind of bizarre chauvinism about NFS and Suns, and access to the systems. But, my memory is that RFS as available to us was not very easy to deploy, and may have been by default a "hard" mount just at the point we were finding the benefit of having a "soft" mount, in experience. Sure, a soft mount is significantly less reliable, but with unreliable campus networks and systems, half a usable system is better than none at all, and RFS tended to 'all or nothing' This was during the window where Sun was breaking the UDP checksum, and also Ethernet backoff. So, its UDP checksum gaming meant it was "faster" because it did less work, and its Ethernet backoff gaming meant it was always first-to-fire in a contention event on the cable. Two cheats! I don't think RFS did either, so there was also specious benchmarking coming into effect, -G