12 Aug
2000
12 Aug
'00
2:33 p.m.
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 11:17:19AM -0000, Chris Good wrote:
going to move away from filers everywhere to just a couple of filers at the centre of the network. Anyone else think it would be worth netapp sponsoring someone to fix up the linux nfs client to perform well under load? I'm guessing that the cost-benefit to netapp would be pretty convinving.
I don't really follow Linux developments, but I understood that SGI have been doing a lot of NFS improvement work. Have they only been doing server-related fixes?
The biggest problem with x86 "free" Unix/alikes had always been locking, so what is the current state of play with that in Linux, Free/Net/OpenBSD?
James.