From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 17 13:00:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA23798 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 13:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nda.nda.com (fw1.NDA.COM [204.57.47.254]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA23786 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 13:00:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (kevin@localhost) by nda.nda.com (8.7.4/8.6.4) id PAA26484; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 15:58:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Kevin Lyda Message-Id: <199606171958.PAA26484@nda.nda.com> Subject: Re: BSDI 2.0 vs. FreeBSD 2.x To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 15:58:49 -0400 (EDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606171841.OAA01559@etinc.com> from "Dennis" at Jun 17, 96 02:41:35 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > True, however BSD is marketing themselves as an internet gateway, where > NFS is not as important. And now that FreeBSD has a Netware compatible > server available....the option to dump NFS (which I really dont want to use > on my Windows workstations anyways) is more than viable. The Netware > stuff (although not free) is a lot nicer (and faster) than NFS. how can you justify that? is netware an inherently faster protocol than nfs? or is this just an implementation issue? kevin