On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 09:47:30AM -0700, Russ Johnson wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> 
> >Name one.  :)
> > 
> >
> Unless things have changed dramatically...
> 
> NFS.
> 
> I had several Linux NFS servers running in a production environment.
> 
> If one of them went down while other machines had exported directories 
> mounted, they would not gracefully re-mount when the server came back up.
> 
> Solaris does this. No muss, no fuss.

wasn't NFS originally developed by Sun?  I would hope that with 20 years
of promoting NFS, they'd have time to work out the kinks.

> We all hope that our boxes will have years and years of uptime, but the 
> reality is that nearly every kernel ever produced has had remotely 
> exploitable vulnerabilities. That goes for every operating system for 
> every computer.

IMO, an uptime of more than six months is more a negative reflection
on the administrator than a positive reflection on the OS, and I use
OpenBSD.

> So you WILL have to restart the computer. What that happens, the fewer 
> issues for the client machines, the better.
> 
> >Seriously, no, the licenses are incompatible.
> > 
> >
> Sometimes, the license is not as important as many make it out to be.

depends.  there's a big difference between using the code "as is",
and making a derivation of the code and distributing it.

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