One might have noticed that linux 2.4.25 got support for
"Unix extensions for cifs", something invented by HP and integrated
info samba (server) around a year ago. Note that I never tried it
myself, and I guess you won't find a client for Solaris.
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Didi
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 06:14:46PM +0200, Noam Meltzer wrote:
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> Hi,
> Where I work, I have a large network of UNIX machines using NFS as
> integral part. This is an hetrogenic network, containing Solaris,
> HP/UX, Linux and sume more platforms. We use NFS to share homedirs,
> projects, and more...
> Since I work there the infrastracture of the network improved a lot,
> and lately this allowed me to see that we actually have a lot of
> problems that I suspect related to NFS.
> An example for such problem is that sometime I find a process stuck in
> the status of "Waiting for I/O" (and if i'll try very hard i'll find
> it every day) and it was always an NFS I/O. If I released the mount
> ("umount -l <mount point>" on linux) and returned it, it immidatly
> fixed the problem.
>
> This is just one example, and there's more.
>
> Another issue with NFS, is security. NFS is not designed for security.
> It's very easy for a malicious attacker to exploit its pitfalls and
> gain access to the network using it.
>
> All of these led me to the idea of trying to use another protocol.
> Maybe AFS.
> Now I have two questions:
> 1. Do you have any experience with AFS (especially Linux, Solaris &
> HP/UX), and what do you think of it?
> 2. Do you know any other replacements for NFS? I know that there are
> CodaFS, and Intermezzo, but as far as I understood, they work only on
> linux. One of the issues I have, is having Sun's and HP's support.
>
> Noam
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