On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
Andrew Back wrote:
> Chapter 14---I don't know anyone using NFS anymore (I think the last
time
> I saw NFS in a commercial setting was the
late 90s, and even at home, I
> don't use NFS all that much). But replace NFS with Samba, and it's spot
on
(more or
less).
I'd say it's use has if anything grown. Modern data centers often have
dedicated GigE NFS LANs. Good for consolidated storage and portability
useful in HA and virtualised platforms, but cheaper than SAN. And NAS
vendors such as NetApp have gone to great pains to get folks such as Oracle
to certify their technology in such configurations.
I use NFS all over the place. I wouldn't be caught dead using SMBFS in a
production setting.
Peace... Sridhar
Us Real Men just import a remote fileserver's tree over 9p ;)
% 9fs kremvax
% ls /n/kremvax/usr/john
/n/kremvax/usr/john/foo
/n/kremvax/usr/john/bar
...
%
John
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