From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: userspace NFS daemon
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 16:08:25 -0400
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P=E5 m=E5 , 06/09/2004 klokka 15:35, skreiv Bogdan Costescu:

> As in Unix tradition, there are several ways to achieve the same goal. =20
> There are people using 'mount -o bind' (like RHEL's diskless booting
> setup procedure) or hard-links (what I use). But both of these require
> some maintenance effort in form of scripts and a general cleanliness
> in handling software updates or new installs. With clusternfs, the
> files are created in their place with their intended destination in
> the name and the daemon takes care of the rest... There are people
> that prefer to concentrate on science rather than system
> administration. :-)

Hey, it's a free world.

However please beware that most of the hacks that worked around the
non-rfc-compliant behaviours of unfsd are long since gone from the
kernel and will not be coming back.

Cheers,
  Trond



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