Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:58:18 +0000 From: Dan Moschuk <dm@globalserve.net> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS - Will it ever be fixed? Message-ID: <19990322125817.A60019@globalserve.net> In-Reply-To: <199903220752.XAA16629@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 11:52:11PM -0800 References: <199903212136.QAA05306@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <199903220752.XAA16629@apollo.backplane.com>
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> IRIX doesn't have the best NFS implementation in the world, at least > not when we were using it a year or two ago (IRIX 6.2ish). > > Solaris is the benchmark NFS implementation that most people test > their stuff on. > > For FreeBSD, the problem with NFS stems from a crappy initial > implementation. Fixing it is not easy, though we are making progress. > Rewriting it is out of the question... nobody has that kind of time > and it would be several man-months worth of work. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <dillon@backplane.com> Interesting enough, a client that I do contract work for is willing to pay me for 50 hours of time to fix up FreeBSD's NFS implementation. That's a pretty big penny. I expect I'd be starting this mid-April. Regards, -- Dan Moschuk (TFreak!dm@globalserve.net) Senior Systems/Network Administrator Globalserve Communications Inc., a Primus Canada Company "If at first you don't succeed, redefine success" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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