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NFS is a gruesome mess when files aren't exclusively used by a single client (namespace and time(!). A lot of "classic unix" ideas are very, very bad ideas on N
by formerly_proven 6y ago
NFS is a gruesome mess when files aren't exclusively used by a single client (namespace and time(!). A lot of "classic unix" ideas are very, very bad ideas on NFS and will either not work at all (good) or silently sometimes randomly discard data (juck).
- yencabulator 6y agoNFSv4(.1) was largely created to fix this. It has delegations, a mechanism for clients to have coherent caches and exclusivity when needed. As far as I know it works just fine, the world just mostly moved away from wanting NFS.