On Monday 03 January 2005 16:38, David Krider wrote:
Örn Einar Hansen wrote:
Þann Mánudagur 03 janúar 2005 04:51 skrifaði elefino:
I've added a second Linux box to my little network. It was stated in a previous thread in this list that SAMBA3 is basically just as good as NFS for file and printer sharing... so, with that advice (to somebody else) I'll stick with SAMBA (that I already use for sharing with the Windows box).
Whoever told you that Samba3 was as good as NFS for file and printer sharing, is about as wrong as he could ever be. There are real differences between a CIF share and a NFS share, and then you add the fact that Samba is basically an attempt to "emulate" the CIF share on Linux, and thus not as good as a true Windows box is.
Want to know the single best way to hang a Unix box so badly as to need a reboot? Down a box it has an NFS connection to. Simple as that. Works every time, unless you've mounted the share with lots of options that might cause data loss. And sometimes it's pretty dang inconvenient. Don't get me wrong. I understand why, and I even appreciate it. But there are different ways of doing things for different purposes, and NFS isn't and end-all-be-all file serving solution. Feel free to pick whatever works for you. (And if everything I read about AFS didn't scare me away from it, I'd probably try it.)
Are you saying that it doesn't matter whether the connected box goes down gracefully or just dies? As long as it isn't there when NFS wants to stroke it, NFS will hang the other box? Great. My wife's machine would default to Linux, but she'd often shutdown and reboot into Win98. Also, she likes to shut off a PC when nobody is sitting in front of it. Sounds like NFS could make me unhappy about twice per day... assuming I ever get it working. . . :-) What have you heard about AFS... the scary bits, I mean? Kevin (the unsharing)