Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:37:17 +0100 (IST) | From | Paul Jakma <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.18pre4 |
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On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Better asK: What can _we_ do to assure Alan that NFS is up to snuff?
even if it does suck - so what? it can't possibly suck as much as current stock NFS. :) but the general view is that 2.2 with patches is quite useable for NFS serving and as client.
> How can we help along?
the NFS patches (which are a backport of stock 2.4, which descended from the original 2.2 NFS patches) are now too large and too different from stock 2.2 to realistically be split up into small little "this fixes this exact problem". The code is now so far ahead of stock 2.2 that it is an effective rewrite (and with new, but optional, NFSv3 client and server and NFS client over TCP code added on).
alan seems to {want,prefer} small incremental/'obvious fix' patches. but that isn't practically possible anymore. It would mean the NFS guys would effectively have to redo the entire development cycle of code they have written over the last year.
In lieu of a technical argument such as small patches, the only other arguments are those based on the experiences of people who have tried to get linux to work reliably as an NFS server and even client. I've tried to cover those in a previous email, see: Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009121649070.1816-100000@rossi.itg.ie>
So it is now at the stage where we either:
1. bite the bullet and sync stock nfs with nfs.sourceforge.net
or
2. accept that stock 2.2 will never have decent NFS server functionality, and wait for 2.4 to get stable.
we await 2.219pre1 with much curiosity. :)
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