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Date:      27 Mar 2003 13:41:35 -0500
From:      Christopher Fowler <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com>
To:        Steve Sizemore <steve@ls.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Re: NFS -current
Message-ID:  <1048790495.9275.19.camel@cfowler.outpostsentinel.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030327172404.GE64316@math.berkeley.edu>
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On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:24, Steve Sizemore wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:09:28AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Steve Sizemore wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:18:11AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > > > In fact, the only legitimate argument I have ever heard for UDP
> > > > has been "I have an old Linux install that can't talk TCP, as
> > > > only UDP was implemented at the time I installed it".
> > > 
> > > Have you already forgotten the locking problem that you were
> > > helping me with last week? The only solution was to use UDP.
> > 
> > Working around a screwed up implementation is not a "legitimate"
> > argument.  The only legitimate argument to that is "unscrewing"
> > the implementation.
> > 
> > 8-).
> 
> I agree with that to a degree - at least from the perspective of a
> developer. (If I had the knowledge and time to unscrew the
> implementation, I would certainly try.) However, for those who are
> primarily sysadmins and FreeBSD advocates, using UDP is a legitimate
> alternative to switching to linux.


I do not think switching to Linux will fix that TCP Vs UDP issue.  I'm
in need of an NFS TCP server.  Well, at version 2.4.18, I still do not
have it.  I have a need to run tCP for NFS and not use UDP.  For now,
FreeBSD will be serving me up NFS shares.


> 
> Steve
> -- 
> Steve Sizemore <steve@ls.berkeley.edu>, (510) 642-8570
> Unix System Manager
>     Dept. of Mathematics and College of Letters and Science
>     University of California, Berkeley
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