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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: NFS 40th anniversary event
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:05:23 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.2508131302230.53898@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250813015509.GA17097@mcvoy.com>

On Tue, 12 Aug 2025, Larry McVoy wrote:

> I think Sun people love it, because the Sun implementation just worked, 
> the rest of the world mostly hates it.  I learned this when I left Sun 
> and got to use other NFS implementations, they sucked.

I can vouch for Sun's NFS working well, and others' not so much (zeroed 
blocks returned etc)...

> We supported BitKeeper on NFS which meant we had to do lock files on NFS 
> on all platforms.  Believe me when I say I know that other NFS 
> implementations were a mess.  Read all the drama here:

I'm impressed by the workarounds for obscure kernel bugs :-)

-- Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2025-08-13  3:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-13  0:59 [TUHS] NFS 40th anniversary event Tom Lyon
2025-08-13  1:55 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2025-08-13  3:05   ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2025-08-13  5:59     ` [TUHS] Greetings! Phillip Harbison
2025-08-13 14:00     ` [TUHS] Re: NFS 40th anniversary event Douglas McIlroy
2025-08-13 14:18       ` Dan Cross
2025-08-13 14:59         ` arnold
2025-08-13 15:26           ` Douglas McIlroy
2025-08-13 15:34             ` arnold
2025-08-13 15:47           ` Martin Schröder
2025-08-14  3:43             ` arnold
2025-08-13 15:56         ` Larry McVoy
2025-08-13 16:24           ` Peter Weinberger (温博格) via TUHS
2025-08-13 16:43             ` Tom Lyon
2025-08-13 17:27               ` Larry McVoy
2025-08-13 20:24               ` Will Senn
2025-08-14  1:41               ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2025-08-14  2:04                 ` Tom Lyon
2025-08-14  0:31         ` Jonathan Gray
2025-08-14  0:54           ` Charles H. Sauer (he/him)
2025-08-14  1:28             ` Rich Salz
2025-08-14  1:29             ` Tom Lyon
2025-08-13 17:08       ` [TUHS] RFS Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)

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