Another reason I hate NFS: Silent data loss!
Akira Takiguchi
akira at atson.asahi-np.co.jp
Sun Jun 23 23:50:18 AEST 1991
There's another reason for NFS to fail: hardware bugs. I heard that
at least one hardware did have a bug in the ethernet controller, and what
at first seemed to be an NFS bug was caused by somewhat mangled data on
ethernet collision [so the bug appeared only on heavy load].
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