On 8/9/10 5:31 AM, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 12:18 +0200, Edgar Fuß wrote: >>> The NFS server sits in user space. >> Oops? I don't know what Linux does, but with BSD, it has always been >> in-kernel. > > Historically there was a user-space NFS-daemon (and can very probably be > found via Google today). > Actually there are stories about people using it because if you export > filesystems via a user-space NFS daemon, you can change the mounting > below without affecting the clients for NFS-v3. > > But the kernel has a NFS-server since years and all (somewhat common) > distributions use it per default. >
Debian still gives you a choice with packages nfs-user-server and nfs-kernel-server. ~Seth
