Most Efficient Network File sharing protocol?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 11:35:05 UTC 2014


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:34 AM, lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> As to NFS, I have had bad experiences with it, like network cards
> freezing up and computers being halted because NFS failed for unknown
> reasons.  I never got it to work reliably and would not recommend using
> NFS for anything.

I've used NFS reliably for over 20 years. I don't claim it's the best
solution for every scenario, but I don't see how the use of a
high-level protocol running on top of UDP or IP can freeze a network
card. A bad driver or a hardware fault might, but that has nothing to
do with NFS.

poc


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