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Unix, The Difficulties With NFS?

Why is it that Unix has such difficulty with network mounted filesystems? You mount a remote filesystem and if that remote system goes down then your desktop stops functioning also. Even Mac OS X has this problem. Can’t open apps, can’t close apps, can’t unmount the share, can’t list the directories, nothing but power off and reboot. Even if the share comes back online, it still blows up your desktop.

Windows doesn’t do that. Ahh, MS Windows. The slightest breeze will blow it up, but loosing a filesystem does nothing to it. It just happily unmounts it and goes one with it’s day.

I’ve tried CIFS/SMB, AFP, and NFS. They all do the same thing. I guess I should get a different gigabit card for my NAS. One that doesn’t timeout constantly when set to Jumbo Frames.

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