From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_ZEN_BLOCKED_OPENDNS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [50.116.15.146]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2733C31434 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2025 05:05:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF92A43B36; Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:05:31 +1000 (AEST) Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (static-n49-176-133-24.sbr4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [49.176.133.24]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35CF343B35 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:05:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id 57D35PwA058006 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:05:25 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.14.9/8.18.1/Submit) with ESMTP id 57D35OEB058003 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:05:25 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:05:23 +1000 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: <20250813015509.GA17097@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: References: <20250813015509.GA17097@mcvoy.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID-Hash: 5JYODER5ONJ4VWPREXKEKDDNC2FHK22U X-Message-ID-Hash: 5JYODER5ONJ4VWPREXKEKDDNC2FHK22U X-MailFrom: dave@horsfall.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: NFS 40th anniversary event List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: 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