Re: NewNFS vs. oldNFS for 10.0?

Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> On 3/15/13 10:55 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > On 15 March 2013 09:55, Alfred Perlstein <bright_at_mu.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Finally, I think it is really premature to declare a sunset for the
> >> oldnfs
> >> until the users are gushing with approval over the new system.
> > The flipside to this argument (and coming from you is kind of
> > amusing
> > :-) is that without any kind of sunset time stated, companies won't
> > push back or be forced to migrate, so they may stick with oldnfs for
> > years to come.
> 
> I have never in my entire career pushed for "breaking users in the
> interest of forward progress."
> 
> 
> >
> > It sounds like your employer has made that choice, at least for the
> > short term. Nothing in your email stated that you had filed bugs
> > (but
> > I'm sure you have), nor that you were dedicating any resources to
> > help
> > Rick and others iron out the bugs in NFSv4.
> 
> People in my org have been working with NFS and reporting issues for
> the
> past year. I'm quite certain that Doug White has reported issues due
> to
> missing certain caching features of the old code.
> 
You should get him to post w.r.t. his issues again. I must have missed
or forgotten what they were.

As far as I know, the client caching code is just a clone of what
the oldNFS client does, although it's possible that some differences
are there.

If he/you are referring to the DRC in the server, then, yes, I am
aware that work related to overheads/delays for TCP caching exists.

rick

> This is not indicative that newNFS is bad, just that it still needs
> some
> work.
> 
> >
> > So I'm all for sunsetting oldnfs by 10.x, and lighting a fire up
> > peoples' asses to realise that stuff _needs_ to get debugged before
> > 10.0 is cut, or they're going to be in for an even rougher ride in
> > the
> > future.
> >
> >
> Sure, and how much NFS do you actually use and support exactly?
> 
> -Alfred
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