[tech] NFS mounts

Grahame Bowland gbowland at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Sun Aug 27 08:47:59 WST 2000


On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 09:17:32AM +0800, Ian McKellar wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 12:15:16AM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> > 
> > Any ideas why NFS doesn't work over a slow (modem) link?
> > 
> 1) Its crap

I've heard that but never understood why. I know Linux seems to die horribly 
if anything goes wrong with an NFS mount.

> 2) Its probably partly blocked at a firewall (were you dialed up to UWA or
> the borg?).

The borg :)

Grahame

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