[TUHS] NFS 40th anniversary event

[Dave Horsfall]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2025, Larry McVoy wrote:

> I think Sun people love it, because the Sun implementation just worked, 
> the rest of the world mostly hates it.  I learned this when I left Sun 
> and got to use other NFS implementations, they sucked.

I can vouch for Sun's NFS working well, and others' not so much (zeroed 
blocks returned etc)...

> We supported BitKeeper on NFS which meant we had to do lock files on NFS 
> on all platforms.  Believe me when I say I know that other NFS 
> implementations were a mess.  Read all the drama here:

I'm impressed by the workarounds for obscure kernel bugs :-)

-- Dave