On 1 Aug 2006, at 12:58, Ken Guest wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:02:06PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> <snip>
>> The moral of the story is that Linux as an NFS server sucks, but
>> that's hardly news.
>>> For completeness sake, What *nix would you recommend for an NFS
> server instead?
Solaris. Sun invented NFS - they still understand it rather well.
I've heard the various free BSDs do NFS quite well too, though am
lacking in personal experience. If your budget is large, Netapp also
do some quite nice NFS servers.
Now if I would only eat my own dog food there . . .
Niall
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