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SubjectRe: Key features that should go into 2.4 ...
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Niklas Edmundsson wrote:
<lament about poor nfs performance under Linux snipped>
> I, and many many others, believe that if Linux are going to get
> accepted (and used) in such environments then it has to have a working
> nfs-support, both client and server. If the feature-freeze means no
> working nfs3 I hardly recommend you all to reconsider this. A (IMHO)
> working solution would be to do the feature-freeze, but push the
> development of the nfs-part into working state and into the kernel.
Feature freeze means no new features, so developer can concentrate on
fixing bugs.
What you've described can easily be seen as bugs, which means this is the
exact time to expect work on the problem.

>
> It would definately be a win for Linux, since it's one of the weak
> points in the Linux-kernel (the weakest IMO). I could probably come up
> with many more reasons, but the best I can think of is that it would
> lead to far less frustrated sysadmins :-)
>
> If there is a need to test nfs-interoperability with AIX, Irix or
> Solaris feel free to drop me an email. Linux can talk to them, but
> Linux seems to trigger various bugs in AIX (and reportedly Irix, but
> we're not using any Irix nfs-server at the moment).
>
>
> If you are replying to this mail, please CC me since I'm not a
> subscriber of linux-kernel.
>
>
> /Nikke - SysAdmin at the Academic Computer Club, Umeå University, Sweden
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