Subject: Re: NFS Under OS X (was Re: pre-asun2.1.4-39)
From: Harry Zink/Netatalk List (netatalk@fizbin.com)
Date: Sun Jul 23 2000 - 13:54:58 EDT
on 7/20/00 1:33 AM, Jürgen Weltzer at weltzer@werbeagentur-weltzer.de wrote:
> It will be much cheaper to trash the Linux-box and take a NT-box to serve the
> Macs... Is this the way?????
You make a good point. At this point, NT has better support for appletalk,
and Win2000 has better IP support for Mac connectivity - while there are
talks that MS might discontinue AppleTalk support in future versions, I
believe they will keep IP support - this would be in keeping with Apple's
direction.
Seems that, once again, MS wins by mere implementation and stability (while
I am far from an MS fan, I do have to admit that their Mac support (and
patches/fixes) under NT has been admirable.
It is the very argument that I have been, fruitlessly, making on this list
before, particularly in regards to the alias issue. What the adherents to
the "Don't use Alias'" mantra don't seem to understand is that NT/2000 will
run on the same hardware that Linux will run, and while Linux is 'free', the
cost of installing the MS product ($150, at most) is easily offset by the
lesser amount of maintenance, feature-loss, and potential data loss.
The point is that certain aspects of netatalk *NEED* to be addressed before
it can be implemented in a real production environment (regardless of the
arguments of thos making a living setting up netatalk boxes with
limitations). These issues clearly are: alias support, data loss issue, and
stability.
Now, this is NOT to knock Adrian's work - he has done a TREMENDOUS job, and
without him netatalk would just be a marginalized and obsolete protocol
suite in eternal beta status. Furthermore, I fully understand that Cobalt is
paying Adrian real money for real work (that might or might not be netatalk
related), and thus Adrian's priorities lie with Cobalt - nothing wrong with
that.
Nevertheless, netatalk still needs some minor work to be done before I can
feel safe deploying it safely in a real production environment.
Harry
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