The environment that this senerio would be most likly to be used in would
not be using a Linux box for the NFS server, instead it would be using
something like a Network appliance (or their higher end competitor,
Auspecs or domwthing like that). These boxes run their own OS, have their
own filesystem and are heavily tuned (raid for disks, large amounts of
static ram to buffer writes to, etc). They are also not cheap, the one I
am using at my web farm here runs ~$60,000. not having the ability to use
any capabilities for files residing on this system would be a drawback.
David Lang
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, David L. Parsley (lkml account) wrote:
>
> Well, I certainly am not in favor of trying to hack capabilities to work
> in a heterogenous environment. I see no reason why nfs can't be hacked so
> that two Linux machines can use capabilities over nfs. As far as IRIX,
> Linux 2.0 nfs servers, ... I just don't see this as an absolute necessity,
> especially when it adds what I consider unneeded bloat and complexity to
> our implementation.
>
> Of course, at least one gentleman from SGI has been very helpful in this
> thread; perhaps IRIX will get patched for this. ;-)
>
"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
happy."
- -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
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