The Unix Haters' Handbook

[Andrew Back]

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Sean Conner wrote:

>  Chapter 14---I don't know anyone using NFS anymore (I think the last time
> I saw NFS in a commercial setting was the late 90s, and even at home, I
> don't use NFS all that much).  But replace NFS with Samba, and it's spot on
> (more or less).

I'd say it's use has if anything grown. Modern data centers often have 
dedicated GigE NFS LANs. Good for consolidated storage and portability 
useful in HA and virtualised platforms, but cheaper than SAN. And NAS 
vendors such as NetApp have gone to great pains to get folks such as 
Oracle to certify their technology in such configurations.

Andrew